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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

6 km N of Waterloo, Oregon

· -0.5 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Linn County 24 kmMarion County 44 kmBenton County 48 kmPolk County 59 kmLane County 69 kmClackamas County 84 kmLincoln County 86 kmYamhill County 87 kmWashington County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Linn County, 24 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1496 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 44.5503, -122.8297. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Linn County, OR 24 km (15 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Marion County, OR 44 km (27 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Benton County, OR 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Benton County
Polk County, OR 59 km (37 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Lane County, OR 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lane County
Clackamas County, OR 84 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km SSE of Monroe, Oregon
  2. 1.7 14 km NE of Springfield, Oregon
  3. 2.0 6 km W of Lacomb, Oregon
  4. 1.6 9 km SSE of Crawfordsville, Oregon
  5. 1.5 4 km SSE of Cascadia, Oregon
  6. 1.8 3 km W of Mehama, Oregon
  7. 1.5 1 km NNE of Cascadia, Oregon
  8. 2.0 4 km N of Sweet Home, Oregon
  9. 1.8 5 km N of Waterloo, Oregon
  10. 1.6 4 km NW of Brownsville, Oregon
  11. 1.7 5 km W of Mehama, Oregon
  12. 1.5 3 km S of Brownsville, Oregon
  13. 1.6 22 km N of Unity, Oregon
  14. 2.1 2 km WSW of Jefferson, Oregon
  15. 1.7 14 km N of Mehama, 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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