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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

2 km NW of Sweet Home, Oregon

· -0.6 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Linn County 20 kmBenton County 53 kmLane County 55 kmMarion County 56 kmPolk County 74 kmClackamas County 94 kmLincoln County 95 kmYamhill County 103 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Linn County, 20 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 570 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 44.4135, -122.7617. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Linn County, OR 20 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Benton County, OR 53 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Benton County
Lane County, OR 55 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lane County
Marion County, OR 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Polk County, OR 74 km (46 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Polk County
Clackamas County, OR 94 km (59 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County

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

Aftershocks so far

46 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 NW of Lacomb, Oregon
  5. 1.6 5 km NW of Lacomb, Oregon
  6. 1.8 5 km SSE of Monroe, Oregon
  7. 1.7 14 km NE of Springfield, Oregon
  8. 2.0 6 km W of Lacomb, Oregon
  9. 1.6 9 km SSE of Crawfordsville, Oregon
  10. 1.5 4 km SSE of Cascadia, Oregon
  11. 1.8 3 km W of Mehama, Oregon
  12. 1.5 1 km NNE of Cascadia, Oregon
  13. 2.0 4 km N of Sweet Home, Oregon
  14. 1.8 5 km N of Waterloo, Oregon
  15. 1.6 4 km NW of Brownsville, 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 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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