282 km W of Bandon, Oregon

Yes. A magnitude 2.7 earthquake was recorded 282 km W of Bandon, Oregon at 21:08 UTC on 2019-12-04, 26 km deep.

2019-12-04 21:08 UTC · 26 km deep · released about 320 lb of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2019-12-04 21:08 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.7 (ml)
Depth: 26 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 611 days ago · we first saw it 611 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 320 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 48,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 34,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.7 about 320 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

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.3 on 2019-08-29 — about 270,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.

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

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Aftershocks so far

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

3.5 269 km W of Bandon, Oregon 15:29 UTC
3.4 255 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon 09:08 UTC
6.0 267 km W of Bandon, Oregon 20:15 UTC
4.3 298 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon 00:25 UTC
2.7 238 km W of Langlois, Oregon 18:47 UTC
4.0 275 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon 15:36 UTC
3.1 289 km W of Bandon, Oregon 00:03 UTC
3.0 243 km W of Bandon, Oregon 02:48 UTC
3.5 252 km W of Bandon, Oregon 23:38 UTC
3.1 254 km W of Bandon, Oregon 12:04 UTC
3.2 off the coast of Oregon 18:55 UTC
3.4 275 km W of Langlois, Oregon 23:19 UTC
2.5 282 km W of Langlois, Oregon 11:56 UTC
2.9 277 km W of Langlois, Oregon 10:02 UTC
2.6 253 km W of Langlois, Oregon 13:43 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 22:32 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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