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M 1.6ml

Earthquake near Medford, OR

USGS: 3 km NW of Butte Falls, Oregon

33 km (21 mi) NE of Medford, OR

10:13 pm PDT, Sep 1, 2022 · · 14 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jackson County 19 kmKlamath County 79 kmJosephine County 83 kmDouglas County 92 kmSiskiyou County 109 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
10:13 pm PDT on 1 September 2022 ()
Where
35 km (22 mi) NE of Medford, OR · earthquakes near Medford
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jackson County, 19 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1491 days ago

A magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 35 km (22 mi) NE of Medford, OR, at 10:13 pm PDT on 1 September 2022 (05:13 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Shady Cove, Eagle Point, White City.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.0 27 km WNW of Klamath Falls, Oregon · 50 km ESE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 42.5672, -122.5940. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Jackson County, OR 19 km (12 mi) SSW earthquakes near Jackson County
Klamath County, OR 79 km (49 mi) E earthquakes near Klamath County
Josephine County, OR 83 km (51 mi) WSW earthquakes near Josephine County
Douglas County, OR 92 km (57 mi) NNW earthquakes near Douglas County
Siskiyou County, CA 109 km (68 mi) S earthquakes near Siskiyou County
Del Norte County, CA 146 km (91 mi) SW earthquakes near Del Norte County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.9 15 km NE of Wimer, Oregon
  2. 1.9 6 km NE of Medford, Oregon
  3. 1.6 8 km WSW of Phoenix, Oregon
  4. 1.8 7 km SSE of White City, Oregon
  5. 1.5 7 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  6. 1.6 24 km N of Trail, Oregon
  7. 1.6 6 km W of Central Point, Oregon
  8. 1.6 16 km NNE of Wimer, Oregon
  9. 1.6 7 km WNW of Butte Falls, Oregon
  10. 1.5 9 km WSW of Phoenix, Oregon
  11. 1.8 6 km ENE of Medford, Oregon
  12. 1.8 4 km SE of Eagle Point, Oregon
  13. 1.9 8 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  14. 1.6 9 km SSE of Jacksonville, Oregon
  15. 1.7 7 km WNW of Butte Falls, 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.

On USGS

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