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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

0 km NE of Rose Lodge, Oregon

· -0.4 km deep · released about 31 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Polk County 40 kmLincoln County 42 kmTillamook County 50 kmYamhill County 51 kmBenton County 68 kmWashington County 85 kmMarion County 103 kmClatsop County 113 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Polk County, 40 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 633 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 31 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 31× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 31 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 45.0145, -123.8742. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Polk County, OR 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Polk County
Lincoln County, OR 42 km (26 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Tillamook County, OR 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tillamook County
Yamhill County, OR 51 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Benton County, OR 68 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Benton County
Washington County, OR 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Washington County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
  2. 2.6 3 km SE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
  3. 1.5 31 km W of Neskowin, Oregon
  4. 1.8 4 km ENE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  5. 1.6 2 km SW of Oceanside, Oregon
  6. 1.6 4 km NE of Falls City, Oregon
  7. 1.9 7 km SE of Toledo, Oregon
  8. 2.0 32 km W of Neskowin, Oregon
  9. 1.5 2 km NW of Sheridan, Oregon
  10. 1.6 24 km NNW of Sheridan, Oregon
  11. 1.8 8 km W of Falls City, Oregon
  12. 1.6 5 km W of Dallas, Oregon
  13. 1.7 9 km WSW of Falls City, Oregon
  14. 2.2 9 km E of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  15. 1.6 3 km S of Fort Hill, 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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