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M 3.0ml

6 km E of Pistol River, Oregon

· 6.1 km deep · released about 800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Curry County 23 kmJosephine County 62 kmDel Norte County 64 kmCoos County 103 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Curry County, 23 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 53 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 800 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 42.2733, -124.3125. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Curry County, OR 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Curry County
Josephine County, OR 62 km (39 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Josephine County
Del Norte County, CA 64 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Del Norte County
Coos County, OR 103 km (64 mi) S of here earthquakes near Coos County
Douglas County, OR 147 km (91 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

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

  1. 0.7 17 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  2. 1.6 23 km WSW of Brookings, 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. 1.7 7 km E of Pistol River, Oregon
  12. 1.8 15 km SSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  13. 1.9 7 km NE of Harbor, 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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