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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

3 km W of Mehama, Oregon

· -0.4 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marion County 14 kmLinn County 35 kmClackamas County 55 kmPolk County 59 kmBenton County 69 kmYamhill County 72 kmMultnomah County 86 kmWashington County 91 kmLane County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Marion County, 14 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1343 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 36 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 44.7912, -122.6625. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marion County, OR 14 km (9 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Linn County, OR 35 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Clackamas County, OR 55 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Polk County, OR 59 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Benton County, OR 69 km (43 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Benton County
Yamhill County, OR 72 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yamhill County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 27 km NNE of Gates, Oregon
  2. 2.1 2 km WSW of Jefferson, Oregon
  3. 1.7 14 km N of Mehama, Oregon
  4. 1.9 5 km ENE of Lebanon, Oregon
  5. 1.7 9 km SSW of Saint Paul, Oregon
  6. 1.8 10 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  7. 1.7 5 km W of Mehama, Oregon
  8. 1.7 11 km SE of Silverton, Oregon
  9. 1.9 7 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  10. 1.7 4 km ENE of Molalla, Oregon
  11. 1.8 5 km ENE of Molalla, Oregon
  12. 2.1 5 km ENE of Molalla, Oregon
  13. 2.2 3 km NNW of Sweet Home, Oregon
  14. 1.6 8 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  15. 1.6 2 km SSE of Sodaville, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2022-10-07 — it released about 3,200 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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