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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

14 km NW of Nesika Beach, Oregon

· 15 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Curry County 30 kmCoos County 73 kmJosephine County 81 kmDel Norte County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Curry County, 30 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 328 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 42.6073, -124.5170. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Curry County, OR 30 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Curry County
Coos County, OR 73 km (45 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Coos County
Josephine County, OR 81 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Del Norte County, CA 105 km (65 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Douglas County, OR 134 km (83 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Douglas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.7 17 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  2. 2.0 48 km WSW of Port Orford, Oregon
  3. 1.7 6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  4. 2.3 7 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  5. 1.9 6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  6. 1.6 7 km ESE of Pistol River, Oregon
  7. 1.6 6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  8. 1.8 6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  9. 1.6 8 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  10. 1.8 10 km NNE of Nesika Beach, Oregon
  11. 2.5 42 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  12. 1.7 7 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  13. 3.0 6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  14. 1.7 12 km SSE of Port Orford, Oregon
  15. 2.6 10 km NW of Langlois, 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 4.5 on 2019-11-30 — it released about 23,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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