Strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - 285km W of Bandon, Oregon (USA) on Thursday, 29 August 2019 - information
Strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - 285km W of Bandon, Oregon (USA) on Thursday, 29 August 2019
Aug 29 15:28: Magnitude recalculated from 6.4 to 6.3.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 12.0 to 5.4 km.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 5.4 to 4.7 km.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 12.0 to 5.4 km.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 5.4 to 4.7 km.
Date & time: Thursday, 29 August 2019 15:07 UTC
Local time at epicenter: 2019-08-29 06:07:57 -09:00
Magnitude: 6.3
Depth: 4.7 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 43.5436°N / 127.8761°W
(United States)
Nearest volcano: North Gorda Ridge (131 km)
Primary data source: USGS
Estimated released energy: 1.8*10^14 J (49.4 GWh / 42502 tons of TNT / 2.7 atomic bombs equivalent) [learn more]
Local time at epicenter: 2019-08-29 06:07:57 -09:00
Magnitude: 6.3
Depth: 4.7 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 43.5436°N / 127.8761°W
(United States)Nearest volcano: North Gorda Ridge (131 km)
Primary data source: USGS
Estimated released energy: 1.8*10^14 J (49.4 GWh / 42502 tons of TNT / 2.7 atomic bombs equivalent) [learn more]
Data for same earthquake as reported from other agencies
| Time | Mag. / Depth | Location | Source | |
| Thu, 29 Aug 2019 | ||||
| Thu, 29 Aug 15:07 UTC | M 6.3 / 10 km | Off Coast Of Oregon (USA) | EMSC | |
| Thu, 29 Aug 15:07 UTC | M 6.3 / 10 km | Off Coast of Oregon (USA) | GFZ | |
| Thu, 29 Aug 15:08 UTC | M 6.2 / 8.1 km | Off Coast of Oregon (USA) | GeoAu | |
| Thu, 29 Aug 15:08 UTC | M 6.2 / 10 km | Off coast of Oregon, United States [Sea: United States] (USA) | INGV | |
| Thu, 29 Aug 15:08 UTC | M 5.7 / 43 km | Off Coast of Oregon (USA) | BMKG | |
"I felt it" reports:
San Francisco, Mission District, in Apt / MMI IV (Light shaking): Laying in bed and felt side to side movement. I have felt smaller tremors in the past, but nothing like this. Monitor on arm stand, plants and bed were visible shaking.
Mcminnville Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Several of us in our work building felt it in McMinnville. It was very quick, maybe 1/2 second. We all looked at each other confused. Very odd that we could feel it so far away. We think it's because of the way ouro 3 story building is built. Employees on every floor felt it and 1 employee in our parking lot. Never felt our building shake like that before.
Mcminnville Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Several us in our work building felt it in McMinnville. It was very quick, maybe 1/2 second. Very odd that we could feel it so far away, but no other explanation for a 3 story building shaking at once. Never felt our building shake like that before.
Bakersfield (1189.3 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Tell the Goverment to chill with the HAARP. We all know what they're trying to do to us. (via app)
Longview / MMI III (Weak shaking): Laying in bed and felt slight shaking.
Waldport (318.8 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Strange all these people saying they felt it when they're so far away. Like in Portland, really? Sure. We are in w Waldport on the coast which is way closer to Bandon and absolutely nothing. No way people further away felt it. Liars. (via app)
Vancouver, WA / MMI IV (Light shaking): 2 people woke up in my household, and 3 dogs. The house shook, and it felt like a strong rumble vibrating for 30-40 seconds. Windows and glasses shook.
6970 Appleton Dr. Apt 2 Las Vegas 89156 (1365.2 km ESE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Yes I felt it lying down on couch, lightly, ribs and teeth, no mistaking.. Cats r trying now at 1040 a night to hide again. I thinking felt something 10-20 min ago.
Hebo. I was in bed / MMI IV (Light shaking): I was asleep when my bed shook and woke me I was trying to figure out what that was that shook me awake.
Portland / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Fresno california / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Was sleeping do not know the time but it was around 4am was not too sure it was a quake but i knew something wasnt right.
10777 sw Cascade Ave Tigard, OR 97223 / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
San Marcos / not felt
Lake Oswego Oregon (461 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking): I was laying in bed & not sure if I was shaking because I’ve got bad stomach flu or from an earthquake (I’m from the midwest & I’ve never experienced an earthquake before). we had also had lightning/thunder that was shaking the house around 4am and I thought maybe that was happening?
Portland / MMI III (Weak shaking): Was in bed, Felt like rumbles. Wasn’t certain if quake or not.
Redwood Valley CA (625.9 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): So crazy that I felt this was working in a 3 story house and the owners dog ran outside.heard a large boom (via app)
Southwest Anchorage, AK (2439.9 km NNW from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: I don’t know why my VolcanoDiscovery app said that I “might have felt” this quake. It was only 5.4km deep & 2,437km away from my house.
Vancouver / not felt
(308 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking)
SW Portland OR / MMI III (Weak shaking): Thought I heard some type of bang while still lying in bed. Immediately thought “earthquake”. I looked over at my small “grand dog” who had been asleep on bed and he was startled into sitting position with ears perked up b
Seaside, Oregon / not felt: Not felt at all.
leaburg, oregon (489.7 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking): It lasted about 2 seconds and felt like bumps up and down. I was sitting at the time and felt these bumps as strong waves.
Concord (796.9 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking): More like a slam against the house
Modesto Ca (873.3 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Not felt but waiting for one I will feel within the next week. (via app)
Corvallis, OR (384.8 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): It nearly knocked me off my yoga mat! Definitely shook my chakras enough to misalign them. Now my vibrations are all out of whack. At least I now have bragging rights over something trivial. Science and physics be damned; I felt it in my soul!
Corvallis, OR / not felt: I didn't feel it at all. Was awake and alert at the time, sitting inside my house, and felt nothing. I get the feeling that others posting from this far away from epicenter are not correct in their assertions that they felt the quake; just that they want to brag and claim they're special in a really meaningless way. Lol
(1436.3 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: I did not feel it but I have a seisometer in my garage and it picked it up (via app)
(1396.3 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Went on for the best part of a minute
Salem, OR / MMI III (Weak shaking): It did not feel like trucks passing by. I'm on the fifth floor of and apartment and what I felt was a gentle back and forth horizontal movement, maybe 4 to 6 sways. No rumble or noise.
Charleston, Or (288.1 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Light shaking
West Linn / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Anaheim Ca / MMI II (Very weak shaking): A jolt
LAKE OSWEGO / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Oceanside, California / not felt
Rockaway Beach (379.9 km NE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
San lorenzo (816.1 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Another fracking quake. Stop drilling earth. (via app)
Cottage Grove / not felt
(291.2 km E from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: Might have felt it if I hadn't been sick and sleeping for the past couple of days. (via app)
Oakland Oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Modesto Ca / MMI IX (Violent shaking): I experienced some violent shaking while I was on the toilet. It was strong enough to splash diarrea all over my bottom back and floor.
Red Cross Center, Portland, OR, 97227 (468.9 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): I felt it, but thought it was vibration from equipment next to me.
OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital (449.7 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): I was sitting at my desk and felt the movement in my chair.
ENCINO / not felt
Everett wa / not felt: Felt nothing in upstairs building
(927.1 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Russia. Sankt-Peterburg.not felt. / not felt: Не почувствовал и не ощущал, был в городском парке, прогуливался, всё тихо и спокойно, большое спасибо. Пожалуста оставайтесь в безопасности, берегите Себя, Своих родных и близких людей. Да, геология рулит.))),!!!
Los Angeles 90048 / MMI IV (Light shaking): 1 felt at 11:15am (2 jolts then a small roll) now another at 11:38am ( a quick jolt)
Dorena, Oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Bandon (286.5 km E from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: In Bandon. Nothing felt.
Clatskanie Oregon / MMI III (Weak shaking)
SE 110th and Market / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Woke me up with the question, "Was that just an earthquake?"
Walton OR / MMI IV (Light shaking): First time experiencing an earthquake. It was strong enough to make the liquids shake in their containers on my cabinets. I’m in an RV rather than a permanent building, so I’m sure that made it feel stronger. Kind of interesting.
Newberg Oregon by Sitka Avenue / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Shakes my bed my dog was barking
(1188.1 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking): i was sitting up in a hospital bed and felt verdigo (via app)
Portland, OR south downtown highrise (465.5 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Tillamook, Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): A little after 8am was laying still, in bed, on second level of home. Ask my husband who was downstairs about it...he said he felt nothing. A very slight shaking...stopped...then kind of a bang and slight shake. Similar to a sonic boom.
guerneville, CA / not felt: Heard strange sounds in roof of house, scary
(1466.9 km SE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Slight jolt felt while in bed. (via app)
Gold Beach, Oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking): Woke me up. Shook me side to side.
Roseburg (357.8 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): In 5th wheel laying in bed and the 5th wheel shook for a few seconds was a weak shake (via app)
West Linn / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Kelso, WA / MMI IV (Light shaking): Rolling sensation for several seconds
Cathlamet,wa / not felt
Eugene, OR / not felt: I didn't feel it, but people that live in the valley did
Vancouver Washington / MMI IX (Violent shaking): Shook me all night long.
(389.2 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Coquille / not felt: I woke up around the time of the earthquake and went back to sleep. Maybe it woke me up, but it wasn’t enough for my brain to register any shaking.
Brookings / not felt
Woke me up. But my heart is sensitive to it. Final (378.7 km ESE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking): Woke me up.startled me but my heart is sensitive to it. Took me a bit so checked my phone was surprised to see a 6.3 but it explained why I felt it here. (via app)
Corvallis / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Cat felt it first and ran and hid! Just a slight movement!
Saint Helens Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Felt a rocking motion while I was sitting drink my coffee
SE Portland, Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): It was enough to wake me up on the second floor of my house.
Lake Oswego, Oregon (422.1 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking): I am a light sleeper. I was awoken by the quake on the fourth floor of my apartment building (brand new construction, commercial-grade building). I sleep with my mattress on the floor, so I knew it was a quake. It felt like I was in a boat, being rocked side to side by the wakes of another craft. Very fluid rocking for about 30 seconds or so.
North bend (295.7 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Pic fell off the wall, a deer head on the wall fell off an killed my dog,
Bandon, OR / MMI IV (Light shaking): Woke me up from sleep. 2 blocks from ocean
Lincoln City,Or / not felt
97132 / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Vancouver, WA 11th and Main Street / MMI III (Weak shaking): I am in downtown Vancouver, WA in a 6 story building and at 8:11 I felt the building sway and said I think we are having an earthquake.
Bend, OR / not felt
(362.4 km ESE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: I was calmly sitting on my bed but didn't feel it. Everything that happened was the information by volcanodiscovery poping off on my phone. (via app)
48314 / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Newberg OR / MMI II (Very weak shaking): My dog notoces it before I did
Portand, OR - downtown area / MMI II (Very weak shaking): I'm in downtown Portland very close to the Steel bridge and I felt the swaying of our 7 floor brick building. I'm on the 6th floor. Two others felt it on the 7th floor. I knew exactly that it was an earthquake.
North bend oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): In chair on second floor.
Salem Oregon / not felt
Salem, Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Oakridge oregon / not felt
Bandon / not felt: Not felt
(438.4 km ESE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking): Light rumble likelast 6 that hit (via app)
Lake Oswego, OR / MMI IV (Light shaking): On 3rd floor of 3 story building - light shaking, desks moving a little.
Springfield Or Dog was shaking about as bad as we / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Cannon Beach, Or / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Lake Oswego, oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Gleneden Beach / not felt: Didn't feel a thing
Sherwood / MMI IV (Light shaking): I felt our bed vibrating with a little sway and woke up to more vibration and closet doors rattling. Our bedroom is on the 2nd level of our Townhome.
Lebanon, Oregon / MMI III (Weak shaking): My 2 dogs were on the floor, they felt it first. I was on a stool and I felt it in my legs first then all over. It was over fast. It was a shaking not a rolling quake by my previous experience.
Longview wa / MMI III (Weak shaking): Felt it on 3rd floor of home. Several small jolts, then light vibrations.
Portland / MMI IV (Light shaking): Apartment building was shaking for about 5 seconds
Eugene (387.4 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Vancouver / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Sitting in our 4th story clinic building when I felt the vibrations and patients and co workers claimed to feel the building sway a little.
Coos Bay / not felt
Camas, Wa (487.4 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Yoncalla, Oregon (380.5 km E from epicenter) [Map] / MMI III (Weak shaking): Laying in bed. Felt like someone came in and jumped on the bed. No one there. Saw report of earthquake on Facebook minutes later.
Oceanside, Oregon / MMI II (Very weak shaking): I felt a brief “jiggle” of my bed on the 3rd floor
Newberg OR (435.8 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Full timers in RV. Very md shaking as if some one was walking heavy from side to side in the motor home
Frazier Park, ca / not felt
Vancouver Washington / MMI III (Weak shaking)
Eugene, Eugene mission / MMI II (Very weak shaking): I was sitting still on my bed on the second floor facing south when I felt a measurable force move my body from left to right about an inch in each direction. I looked at the coffee to my right and noticed it too was swaying. I grew up in L.A. so I knew what it was and verified it with this site. Have a good day
Portland, Oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking): A couple East/West jolts.
19467 Hwy 30, Clatskanie, OR (467.9 km NE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking)
(448.3 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): On third floor of the building felt sway back and forth for a couple seconds.
Bellevue, WA / not felt: Not felt
Eugene / MMI III (Weak shaking)
North Bend Oregon / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Portland / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Tigard, OR / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Sitting at my desk on the second story felt a slight shaking, rolling feeling and notice my water was moving as well
Mcfarland california 93250 / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
(464.3 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI IV (Light shaking)
Coquille Oregon / not felt
Chinook, WA / not felt
Portland (477.3 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Salem Oregon (417.9 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / not felt: 252 miles away and didn't feel anything (via app)
Richmond, BC / MMI II (Very weak shaking)
Olympia, WA (545.5 km NE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Incredibly light vibration felt at a seat position for a second or two. Minimal traffic going by on the interstate close by and a thunderstorm recently passed through but is clearing. It is possible the vibration may have been thunder in the distance or the effect of the Oregon quake. (via app)
Roseburg Oregon / not felt
Dayton (419.5 km ENE from epicenter) [Map] / MMI II (Very weak shaking): Was in chair with wheels at desk and felt it. Looked up earthquake reports and saw it happen. But it was 2 minutes after even or 1.5 minutes (via app)
Canby (United States of America) (465 km NE from epicenter)(no details): Did not feel this 230 miles Northeast of the epicenter. How is it possible that this quake was felt in Montana and Canada?? (via EMSC)
Great Falls (United States of America) (1378 km E from epicenter)(no details): At about 9:05am, MST time I felt the chair I was sitting in vibrate for about 20 secs. I live in Great Falls, MT (via EMSC)
Surrey (Canada) (736 km NE from epicenter)(no details): loads of aftershocks similar to the first (via EMSC)
Vancouver (United States of America) (486 km NE from epicenter)(no details): Driving my car was very disorientingDidn't realize it was an earthquake until message showed up on my phone.... (via EMSC)
Portland (United States of America) (478 km NE from epicenter)(no details): Was in bed, the whole room shook left and right for ten seconds or so. (via EMSC)
Portland (United States of America) (478 km NE from epicenter)(no details): Low rumble (via EMSC)
Salem (United States of America) (425 km E from epicenter)(no details): Didn't feel anything. Only knew about it when I got the alert. (via EMSC)
Crescent City (United States of America) (380 km SE from epicenter)(no details): It felt like a moth-South slip. Was it on the Cascadia Subduction Zone? (via EMSC)
