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M 1.6ml

2 km E of Government Camp, Oregon

· 6.9 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hood River County 24 kmClackamas County 40 kmWasco County 47 kmMultnomah County 60 kmClark County 79 kmMarion County 80 kmSkamania County 82 kmSherman County 83 kmJefferson County 85 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hood River County, 24 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 651 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.3 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 45.3048, -121.7283. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hood River County, OR 24 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hood River County
Clackamas County, OR 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Wasco County, OR 47 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wasco County
Multnomah County, OR 60 km (37 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Multnomah County
Clark County, WA 79 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Marion County, OR 80 km (50 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Marion County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.0 7 km ENE of Government Camp, Oregon
  2. 1.7 4 km NNW of Mount Hood Village, Oregon
  3. 1.6 6 km SE of Odell, Oregon
  4. 2.1 10 km NNE of Sandy, Oregon
  5. 1.7 6 km SE of Mosier, Oregon
  6. 1.9 8 km NNE of Government Camp, Oregon
  7. 1.6 5 km S of Odell, Oregon
  8. 1.9 8 km NNE of Government Camp, Oregon
  9. 1.6 5 km ENE of Government Camp, Oregon
  10. 1.6 7 km ENE of Government Camp, 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.

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