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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 0.0md

7 km ENE of Government Camp, Oregon

· 6.0 km deep · released about 0.035 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hood River County 20 kmWasco County 44 kmClackamas County 45 kmMultnomah County 63 kmSherman County 78 kmClark County 80 kmSkamania County 80 kmJefferson County 85 kmMarion County 85 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 0.0 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hood River County, 20 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 26 hours 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 0.035 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 440,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 28,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 0.0 about 0.035 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 45.3292, -121.6720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hood River County, OR 20 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Hood River County
Wasco County, OR 44 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Wasco County
Clackamas County, OR 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Clackamas County
Multnomah County, OR 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Multnomah County
Sherman County, OR 78 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sherman County
Clark County, WA 80 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Clark County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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