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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

3 km SSW of Scotts Mills, Oregon

· -0.4 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marion County 15 kmClackamas County 42 kmYamhill County 56 kmPolk County 57 kmLinn County 59 kmMultnomah County 63 kmWashington County 68 kmBenton County 82 kmClark County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marion County, 15 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1859 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 10 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 45.0120, -122.6860. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marion County, OR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Clackamas County, OR 42 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Yamhill County, OR 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Polk County, OR 57 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Linn County, OR 59 km (37 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Multnomah County, OR 63 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Multnomah County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 7 km ESE of Scotts Mills, Oregon
  2. 1.5 5 km W of Mehama, Oregon
  3. 1.6 3 km WNW of Lafayette, Oregon
  4. 1.6 3 km WSW of Stafford, Oregon
  5. 1.8 1 km NNW of Dayton, Oregon
  6. 1.9 2 km ENE of Silverton, Oregon
  7. 1.6 2 km N of Woodburn, Oregon
  8. 1.6 7 km SSW of Dayton, Oregon
  9. 1.8 4 km NE of Lafayette, Oregon
  10. 1.9 4 km NE of Lafayette, Oregon
  11. 1.7 3 km SE of Sherwood, Oregon
  12. 2.1 Oregon
  13. 1.8 7 km NW of Newberg, Oregon
  14. 1.8 3 km ESE of Sherwood, Oregon
  15. 2.0 3 km ENE of Millersburg, 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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