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M 1.8ml

3 km E of Lexington, Oregon

· 8.9 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Morrow County 4 kmGilliam County 50 kmUmatilla County 73 kmSherman County 81 kmWheeler County 84 kmBenton County 88 kmKlickitat County 100 kmGrant County 116 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Morrow County, 4 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 95 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 45.4395, -119.6440. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Morrow County, OR 4 km (2 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Morrow County
Gilliam County, OR 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Gilliam County
Umatilla County, OR 73 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Umatilla County
Sherman County, OR 81 km (50 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sherman County
Wheeler County, OR 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Wheeler County
Benton County, WA 88 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Benton County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.5 12 km ENE of Lexington, 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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