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M 1.9ml

Earthquake near Brookings, OR

USGS: 11 km W of Brookings, Oregon

5:17 am PDT, Sep 12, 2019 · · 1.8 km deep · released about 25 lb of TNT

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When
5:17 am PDT on 12 September 2019 ()
Where
12 km (7 mi) W of Brookings, OR · earthquakes near Brookings
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Del Norte County, 49 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2577 days ago

A magnitude 1.9 earthquake was recorded 12 km (7 mi) W of Brookings, OR, at 5:17 am PDT on 12 September 2019 (12:17 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Harbor, Fort Dick.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 25 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 38× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 25 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.9 5 km NNE of Hiouchi, California · 38 km SE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 42.0367, -124.4238. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Del Norte County, CA 49 km (30 mi) SE earthquakes near Del Norte County
Curry County, OR 51 km (32 mi) NNE earthquakes near Curry County
Josephine County, OR 80 km (50 mi) ENE earthquakes near Josephine County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

55 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 9 km S of Pistol River, Oregon
  2. 1.8 5 km SW of Brookings, Oregon
  3. 1.6 16 km SW of Pistol River, Oregon
  4. 1.5 18 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  5. 1.7 19 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  6. 1.8 9 km SE of Pistol River, Oregon
  7. 1.9 11 km W of Smith River, California
  8. 2.9 14 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  9. 1.6 3 km ENE of Harbor, Oregon
  10. 1.6 53 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  11. 2.2 54 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  12. 1.8 6 km NW of Brookings, Oregon
  13. 2.1 51 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  14. 1.6 41 km WSW of Brookings, Oregon
  15. 2.0 13 km NW of Brookings, Oregon

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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