6.4 earthquake reported off Oregon coast

Source: USGS

* Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 01:37:18 UTC
* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 05:37:18 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 43.883°N, 127.228°W
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
Distances

* 242 km (151 miles) WNW (285°) from Barview, OR
* 243 km (151 miles) WNW (291°) from Bandon, OR
* 246 km (153 miles) W (276°) from Winchester Bay, OR
* 330 km (205 miles) W (268°) from Eugene, OR
* 406 km (252 miles) WSW (245°) from Portland, OR

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.6 km (4.7 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst= 68, Nph= 68, Dmin=313.3 km, Rmss=1.3 sec, Gp=155°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2008maae

Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008maae.php

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nothing major-major, but interesting nonetheless. Anyone in OR feel it?

n/t

Everywhere I've driven I've had to look way down on it from the road. if there is a tsunami I have a feeling it won't make it inland very far. It's not like southern california where everythings level with the ocean, at all.

that would be in danger in the event of a tsunami. About thirty minutes south of me, the town of Bandon has stretches of beaches w/o the cliffs. The same goes for a few towns on the southern coast.

But you are correct about the majority of Oregon's rocky cliffs.

around the Newport bay it's very low and marshy--Tsunami run-for-your-life signs all around. The places on that spit in Lincoln City. Seaside..

If you had a house on one of those cliffs, durning a tsunami, it'd be a helluva thing to see.

I haven't heard a one, even when I know precisely when the emergancy horns (or whatever they are called) are going to happen.

:-)

We're all going to have to hope somebody loves us enough to knock on our door because those sirens aren't going to do the job most of the year. I didn't feel a thing and that was kind of a big earthquake. It was kind of far out there, maybe that's why.

that our electricity still works (elevator). Otherwise, I'm pretty much stuck. I can't do stairs and our manager is worthless when it comes to helping tenets.

Yep, the earthquake was too far away for us to feel. Living in SF for twenty years made me ultra sensitive to quakes. A 6.4 I would have felt, for sure.

I'd come get ya. I'm afraid by the time I got there, it'd be a little late though. :(

The coasts of Oregon and Washington are not tsunami-worry free by any means.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2006/11/17/74430.htm

I have to go release a correction to someone now.

Thanks!

On March 27, 1964, the Good Friday Earthquake off Anchorage, Alaska, set in motion local landslide tsunamis, as well as a trans-Pacific one that sped in three hours down the U.S. West Coast to the state of Washington. Destroying docks, boats, cars, coastal dwellings and surging up rivers with the same result, the tsunami continued down the coast.

Within another 1/1-2 hours four waves struck over a two-hour period at Crescent City. Afterwards, 289 buildings and businesses had been destroyed; 1000 cars and 25 large fishing vessels crushed; 12 people were confirmed dead, over 100 were injured, and numbers were missing; 60 blocks had been inundated with 30 city blocks destroyed in total. Although most of the missing were later accounted for, not all were tracked down. Insurance adjusters estimated that the city received more damage from the tsunami on a block-by-block basis than did Anchorage, Alaska, from the initial earthquake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_City,_California

But our daily January rainstorm and wind events shake my house as much or more anyway.

Floods, snowstorms, earthquakes, Republicans. We're like California without the fires and locusts. Until summer....

A M_w 6.4 and M_w 6.6 on 5th Jan, and a M_w 6.1 this morning, all between Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands, and then today's M_w 6.4 off the Oregon coast.

Today's quake:

M_w 6.6 January 05, 2008 at 03:01:05 AM at epicenter


M_w 6.4 January 05, 2008 at 03:44:48 AM at epicenter


M_w 6.1 January 09, 2008 at 06:40:01 AM at epicenter


M_w 6.4 January 09, 2008 at 05:37:18 PM at epicenter

I just posted 'em.

Let's hope the stress has finally been released in that area. Earth's burps and farts can be so bloody dangerous for us....

I'm right here in Portland. Right around 5:30 pm, I remember standing up. I noticed myself swaying, left and right. I was absolutely amazed at that. Had to get a grip on myself, I thought it was just a mild case of vertigo (for no apparent reason!).

The sensation went away quickly, and I forgot all about it.
There was no shaking, or trembling, or any indication that it was an earth quake.
WOW!

Did you see anything like that?

Kind of a clue... :silly:

off the coast of Oregon. Hope that doesn't break. It has been predicted for some time that fault would snap causing major problems on the West Coast.

Isn't that like saying a suicide was "a little depressed"?

...just as it happened before.

http://www.oregongeology.com/sub/earthquakes/Coastal/TsunamisGuestEditorial.htm

I believe that it is over due for a major one. I was a geo major when this was a new discovery and has I recall this subduction zone has the greatest potential for a 8+ magnitude quake. Hopefully these events are a sign of pressure relief as opposed to energy loading up.