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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

5 km SSE of Eagle Point, Oregon

· -1.1 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jackson County 8 kmJosephine County 66 kmSiskiyou County 95 kmKlamath County 96 kmDouglas County 101 kmCurry County 118 km
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
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
-1.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jackson County, 8 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1886 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 42.4267, -122.7707. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jackson County, OR 8 km (5 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Josephine County, OR 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Siskiyou County, CA 95 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Klamath County, OR 96 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Klamath County
Douglas County, OR 101 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Curry County, OR 118 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Curry County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 8 km WSW of Phoenix, Oregon
  2. 2.0 19 km SSW of Ashland, Oregon
  3. 1.8 7 km SSE of White City, Oregon
  4. 1.5 7 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  5. 1.6 24 km N of Trail, Oregon
  6. 1.6 6 km W of Central Point, Oregon
  7. 1.6 16 km NNE of Wimer, Oregon
  8. 1.6 7 km WNW of Butte Falls, Oregon
  9. 1.5 9 km WSW of Phoenix, Oregon
  10. 1.8 6 km ENE of Medford, Oregon
  11. 1.8 4 km SE of Eagle Point, Oregon
  12. 1.9 8 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  13. 1.6 9 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  14. 1.7 7 km WNW of Butte Falls, Oregon
  15. 1.5 2 km WSW of Rogue River, 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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