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M 1.6ml
Earthquake near McMinnville, OR
No earthquake was likely felt in McMinnville in the 24 hours to 9:20 pm PST (05:20 UTC). The last one was M 2.0, 12 km (8 mi) S, at 2:32 pm PDT on 27 July 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near McMinnville
This page: a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 47 km (29 mi) west of McMinnville, OR, at 12:04 pm PDT on 16 October 2024 (19:04 UTC), less than 1 km deep.
USGS: 3 km SE of Beaver, Oregon
95 km (59 mi) WSW of Portland, OR
- When
- 12:04 pm PDT on 16 October 2024 ()
- Where
- 47 km (29 mi) west of McMinnville, OR · earthquakes near McMinnville
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- -0.4 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Tillamook County, 23 km N
- Nearest mapped fault
- Cascadia fold and fault belt, 20 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 751 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 12 km (7 mi) from the epicentre. In McMinnville, 47 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Pacific City, Tillamook, Grand Ronde, Rose Lodge.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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.
For this area
No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.
Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.
Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.
Where
Epicentre 45.2497, -123.7992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tillamook County, OR | 23 km (14 mi) | N | earthquakes near Tillamook County |
| Yamhill County, OR | 38 km (23 mi) | E | earthquakes near Yamhill County |
| Polk County, OR | 50 km (31 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Polk County |
| Washington County, OR | 64 km (40 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Washington County |
| Lincoln County, OR | 68 km (42 mi) | S | earthquakes near Lincoln County |
| Clatsop County, OR | 86 km (54 mi) | N | earthquakes near Clatsop County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
36 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.7 27 km E of Wheeler, Oregon
- 1.3 3 km ESE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
- 1.4 4 km ESE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
- 1.4 2 km NNW of Falls City, Oregon
- 1.9 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
- 2.6 3 km SE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
- 1.9 21 km W of Forest Grove, Oregon
- 2.0 7 km WNW of McMinnville, Oregon
- 1.6 15 km ESE of Wheeler, Oregon
- 1.8 4 km ENE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
- 1.6 9 km E of Wheeler, Oregon
- 2.2 10 km W of Cape Meares, Oregon
- 1.6 2 km SW of Oceanside, Oregon
- 1.5 2 km NW of Sheridan, Oregon
- 1.6 24 km NNW of Sheridan, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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