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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

Oregon

· -0.6 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lane County 12 kmLinn County 63 kmBenton County 63 kmDouglas County 83 kmLincoln County 101 kmMarion County 103 kmPolk County 103 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lane County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1501 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 6.6 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 2,300,000× 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 6.6 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 44.0217, -122.9798. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lane County, OR 12 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Lane County
Linn County, OR 63 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Benton County, OR 63 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Benton County
Douglas County, OR 83 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lincoln County, OR 101 km (63 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Marion County, OR 103 km (64 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Marion County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.4 24 km ENE of Unity, Oregon
  2. 1.5 6 km SSE of Monroe, Oregon
  3. 1.8 1 km ESE of Springfield, Oregon
  4. 1.8 5 km SSE of Monroe, Oregon
  5. 1.6 9 km SSW of Cottage Grove, Oregon
  6. 1.7 14 km NE of Springfield, Oregon
  7. 1.6 9 km SSE of Crawfordsville, Oregon
  8. 1.6 4 km NW of Brownsville, Oregon
  9. 1.5 3 km S of Brownsville, Oregon
  10. 1.6 22 km N of Unity, Oregon
  11. 1.7 1 km S of Drain, Oregon
  12. 2.2 3 km NNW of Sweet Home, Oregon
  13. 1.6 2 km SSE of Sodaville, Oregon
  14. 1.7 13 km S of Culp Creek, Oregon
  15. 1.6 6 km SSE of Monroe, 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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