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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

Oregon

· -0.3 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Columbia County 1 kmWashington County 42 kmCowlitz County 42 kmWahkiakum County 48 kmClark County 49 kmClatsop County 50 kmMultnomah County 67 kmTillamook County 75 kmYamhill County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Columbia County, 1 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1159 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 95× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 45.9330, -123.0745. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Columbia County, OR 1 km (1 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Washington County, OR 42 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Washington County
Cowlitz County, WA 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cowlitz County
Wahkiakum County, WA 48 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Wahkiakum County
Clark County, WA 49 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Clatsop County, OR 50 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Clatsop 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. 1.6 10 km WSW of Felida, Washington
  2. 1.6 3 km ENE of East Cathlamet, Washington
  3. 2.0 5 km NW of North Portland, Oregon
  4. 2.1 1 km ESE of Banks, Oregon
  5. 1.6 5 km ENE of Prescott, Oregon
  6. 1.6 6 km WSW of Castle Rock, Washington
  7. 1.6 10 km NE of Castle Rock, Washington
  8. 2.2 0 km SE of Barberton, Washington
  9. 1.6 1 km WSW of Kalama, Washington
  10. 1.9 4 km SW of Cathlamet, Washington
  11. 1.7 4 km NNE of Kalama, Washington
  12. 1.9 3 km WSW of Cathlamet, Washington
  13. 1.8 5 km WNW of Deer Island, Oregon
  14. 1.7 19 km WSW of Westport, Oregon
  15. 2.3 19 km E of Kelso, Washington

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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