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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

10 km NE of Lexington, Oregon

· 7.9 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Morrow County 10 kmGilliam County 54 kmUmatilla County 68 kmBenton County 79 kmSherman County 85 kmWheeler County 93 kmKlickitat County 99 kmWalla Walla County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Morrow County, 10 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2371 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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.

Where

Epicentre 45.5170, -119.6043. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Morrow County, OR 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Morrow County
Gilliam County, OR 54 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Gilliam County
Umatilla County, OR 68 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Umatilla County
Benton County, WA 79 km (49 mi) S of here earthquakes near Benton County
Sherman County, OR 85 km (53 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sherman County
Wheeler County, OR 93 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Wheeler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 12 km ENE of Lexington, Oregon
  2. 1.8 3 km E of Lexington, Oregon
  3. 2.0 4 km ESE of Umatilla, Oregon
  4. 1.9 4 km ESE of Umatilla, Oregon
  5. 2.0 3 km E of Umatilla, Oregon
  6. 1.9 16 km ENE of Arlington, Oregon
  7. 1.6 4 km S of Echo, Oregon
  8. 2.0 4 km SE of Umatilla, Oregon
  9. 1.6 10 km ENE of Lexington, Oregon
  10. 1.7 9 km ESE of Echo, Oregon
  11. 1.8 17 km ENE of Roosevelt, Washington
  12. 1.6 3 km ESE of Umatilla, Oregon
  13. 1.6 9 km NE of Ione, Oregon
  14. 2.1 2 km SE of Umatilla, Oregon
  15. 1.7 2 km SSE of Echo, 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.

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