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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

1 km ESE of Springfield, Oregon

· -0.4 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lane County 15 kmBenton County 61 kmLinn County 62 kmDouglas County 85 kmLincoln County 98 kmPolk County 101 kmMarion County 102 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
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lane County, 15 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 32 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 15 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 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 65× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 44.0397, -123.0038. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lane County, OR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lane County
Benton County, OR 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Benton County
Linn County, OR 62 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Linn County
Douglas County, OR 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Lincoln County, OR 98 km (61 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Polk County, OR 101 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Polk County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.4 24 km ENE of Unity, Oregon
  2. 1.5 6 km SSE of Monroe, 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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