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M 1.6ml

24 km NNW of Sheridan, Oregon

· 20 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yamhill County 16 kmTillamook County 26 kmWashington County 42 kmPolk County 46 kmColumbia County 78 kmLincoln County 80 kmClatsop County 82 kmMarion County 86 kmMultnomah County 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yamhill County, 16 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 291 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× 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 7.6 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 45.3030, -123.5088. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yamhill County, OR 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Tillamook County, OR 26 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Tillamook County
Washington County, OR 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Washington County
Polk County, OR 46 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near Polk County
Columbia County, OR 78 km (49 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Lincoln County, OR 80 km (50 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 2 km SE of Amity, Oregon
  2. 1.9 3 km S of Fort Hill, Oregon
  3. 2.6 3 km SE of Rose Lodge, Oregon
  4. 1.9 21 km W of Forest Grove, Oregon
  5. 2.0 7 km WNW of McMinnville, Oregon
  6. 1.7 7 km ESE of Amity, Oregon
  7. 2.0 2 km WNW of Dundee, Oregon
  8. 1.6 15 km ESE of Wheeler, Oregon
  9. 1.9 7 km S of Dayton, Oregon
  10. 1.6 9 km E of Wheeler, Oregon
  11. 1.6 2 km SW of Oceanside, Oregon
  12. 1.6 4 km NE of Falls City, Oregon
  13. 2.1 4 km NE of Lafayette, Oregon
  14. 1.5 2 km NW 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.

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