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M 1.6ml

14 km ESE of Scotts Mills, Oregon

· 13 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marion County 12 kmClackamas County 30 kmLinn County 56 kmMultnomah County 62 kmYamhill County 70 kmPolk County 72 kmWashington County 78 kmClark County 87 kmHood River County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marion County, 12 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1482 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.4 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 44.9912, -122.4988. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marion County, OR 12 km (7 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Marion County
Clackamas County, OR 30 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Linn County, OR 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Linn County
Multnomah County, OR 62 km (39 mi) S of here earthquakes near Multnomah County
Yamhill County, OR 70 km (44 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Polk County, OR 72 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Polk County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 4 km ESE of Beavercreek, Oregon
  2. 1.5 3 km SSW of Scotts Mills, Oregon
  3. 1.7 6 km SSE of Molalla, Oregon
  4. 2.7 14 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  5. 2.1 14 km SSE of Scotts Mills, Oregon
  6. 1.7 1 km SSE of Turner, Oregon
  7. 1.7 2 km SSE of Sherwood, Oregon
  8. 1.6 1 km W of Turner, Oregon
  9. 1.8 8 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  10. 1.8 4 km E of Hubbard, Oregon
  11. 1.6 4 km WSW of Stafford, Oregon
  12. 1.6 4 km ESE of Sherwood, Oregon
  13. 2.0 16 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  14. 1.6 3 km SE of Canby, Oregon
  15. 1.6 3 km SE of Sherwood, 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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