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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 12:47 PM Aug 2019

Earthquake strikes 178 Miles Off Oregon Coast: KEZI.com

https://www.kezi.com/content/news/64-magnitude-earthquake-off-Oregon-Coast--558695391.html

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COOS BAY, Ore. -- Just after 8 this morning, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon, according to the USGS.

According to the USGS website, there were more than 350 reports of people feeling shaking from the coast, inland to Eugene, even all the way inland to Bend. Plus, there are reports of shaking as far north as Seattle.

The reason so many people felt the shaking is because this was a shallow earthquake, only 3.3 miles deep, according to KEZI 9 News Meteorologist Andrew Shipotofsky.

The earthquake struck 178 miles off the coast of Coos Bay, USGS reported. There is no threat of a tsunami from this earthquake, the USGS said.
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Earthquake strikes 178 Miles Off Oregon Coast: KEZI.com (Original Post) Stuart G Aug 2019 OP
Stay safe . . . . Iliyah Aug 2019 #1
I didn't feel anything, just outside of Portland. CentralMass Aug 2019 #2
Odd placement Amishman Aug 2019 #3
Yes, the Juan de Fuca plate system... Brother Buzz Aug 2019 #4

Amishman

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3. Odd placement
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 02:31 PM
Aug 2019

Too far offshore to be in the subduction zone but too close to be out at the rift.

Edit: nevermind, for some reason I thought the plate extended further south. The quake was where the southern edge of the Juan de Fuca slides past the Pacific

Brother Buzz

(36,214 posts)
4. Yes, the Juan de Fuca plate system...
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 02:44 PM
Aug 2019

and a lot of peculiar seismic activity has been happening there of late. The eggheads are scratching there heads trying to figure it out.

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