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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

14 km SSE of Scotts Mills, Oregon

· 16 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Marion County 3 kmClackamas County 41 kmLinn County 49 kmPolk County 63 kmYamhill County 67 kmMultnomah County 70 kmWashington County 80 kmBenton County 81 kmClark County 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Marion County, 3 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 738 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 44.9272, -122.5935. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Marion County, OR 3 km (2 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Marion County
Clackamas County, OR 41 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Linn County, OR 49 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Linn County
Polk County, OR 63 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Polk County
Yamhill County, OR 67 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Multnomah County, OR 70 km (44 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Multnomah 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. 1.8 5 km NW of Lacomb, Oregon
  2. 1.6 5 km SSE of Molalla, Oregon
  3. 1.5 9 km ESE of Scotts Mills, Oregon
  4. 1.6 7 km ESE of Molalla, Oregon
  5. 1.6 5 km NW of Lacomb, Oregon
  6. 1.7 7 km ESE of Amity, Oregon
  7. 2.0 6 km W of Lacomb, Oregon
  8. 1.7 8 km S of Molalla, Oregon
  9. 1.9 7 km S of Dayton, Oregon
  10. 1.6 2 km WSW of Stafford, Oregon
  11. 1.8 4 km SSE of Stafford, Oregon
  12. 1.7 8 km S of Molalla, Oregon
  13. 1.8 7 km SSE of Molalla, Oregon
  14. 1.6 6 km S of Dayton, Oregon
  15. 1.6 6 km ESE of Molalla, 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 2,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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