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M 2.5ml

11 km WNW of Beaver, Oregon

· 15 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tillamook County 23 kmYamhill County 51 kmPolk County 64 kmWashington County 73 kmLincoln County 74 kmClatsop County 82 kmColumbia County 99 kmBenton County 100 kmWahkiakum 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tillamook County, 23 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1696 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 45.3070, -123.9678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tillamook County, OR 23 km (14 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Tillamook County
Yamhill County, OR 51 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Polk County, OR 64 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Polk County
Washington County, OR 73 km (46 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Lincoln County, OR 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Clatsop County, OR 82 km (51 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Clatsop County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
  2. 2.6 3 km SE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
  3. 1.5 31 km W of Neskowin, Oregon
  4. 1.6 15 km ESE of Wheeler, Oregon
  5. 1.8 4 km ENE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  6. 1.6 9 km E of Wheeler, Oregon
  7. 2.2 10 km W of Cape Meares, Oregon
  8. 1.6 2 km SW of Oceanside, Oregon
  9. 2.0 32 km W of Neskowin, Oregon
  10. 1.6 24 km NNW of Sheridan, Oregon
  11. 1.6 13 km E of Wheeler, Oregon
  12. 1.6 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
  13. 1.7 11 km ESE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
  14. 2.0 5 km NE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  15. 2.5 26 km WNW of Lincoln City, 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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