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M 1.5ml

2 km ESE of Rose Lodge, Oregon

· 44 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Polk County 37 kmLincoln County 40 kmYamhill County 50 kmTillamook County 51 kmBenton County 65 kmWashington County 85 kmMarion County 101 kmClatsop County 114 kmLinn County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
44 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Polk County, 37 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1443 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 44.9997, -123.8478. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Polk County, OR 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Polk County
Lincoln County, OR 40 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Yamhill County, OR 50 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Tillamook County, OR 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tillamook County
Benton County, OR 65 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Benton County
Washington County, OR 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Washington County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 2 km NW of Sheridan, Oregon
  2. 1.6 24 km NNW of Sheridan, Oregon
  3. 1.8 8 km W of Falls City, Oregon
  4. 1.6 5 km W of Dallas, Oregon
  5. 1.7 9 km WSW of Falls City, Oregon
  6. 2.2 9 km E of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  7. 1.6 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
  8. 1.7 11 km ESE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
  9. 1.6 5 km W of Dallas, Oregon
  10. 2.0 5 km NE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  11. 2.5 26 km WNW of Lincoln City, Oregon
  12. 1.6 16 km WNW of McMinnville, Oregon
  13. 1.7 1 km W of Siletz, Oregon
  14. 1.9 6 km SSW of Falls City, Oregon
  15. 1.7 5 km SE of Rose Lodge, 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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