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M 2.8ml

6 km SW of Aloha, Oregon

· 20 km deep · released about 550 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Washington County 16 kmYamhill County 38 kmMultnomah County 41 kmClark County 49 kmColumbia County 54 kmTillamook County 64 kmClackamas County 67 kmMarion County 68 kmPolk County 72 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
437 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Washington County, 16 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1012 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 437 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 550 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 28,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 550 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 45.4632, -122.9332. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Washington County, OR 16 km (10 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Washington County
Yamhill County, OR 38 km (24 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Multnomah County, OR 41 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Multnomah County
Clark County, WA 49 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Columbia County, OR 54 km (34 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Tillamook County, OR 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Tillamook County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 4 km NE of Lafayette, Oregon
  2. 1.6 10 km SW of Vernonia, Oregon
  3. 1.8 2 km ENE of Brush Prairie, Washington
  4. 1.9 4 km NE of Lafayette, Oregon
  5. 1.5 13 km SSE of Vernonia, Oregon
  6. 1.7 3 km W of Columbia City, Oregon
  7. 1.7 3 km SE of Sherwood, Oregon
  8. 1.7 Oregon
  9. 1.8 7 km NW of Newberg, Oregon
  10. 1.8 3 km ESE of Sherwood, Oregon
  11. 1.8 2 km NW of King City, Oregon
  12. 2.3 2 km SW of Lake Shore, Washington
  13. 1.8 23 km W of Yamhill, Oregon
  14. 2.5 3 km SW of Lake Shore, Washington
  15. 2.3 0 km S of Banks, 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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