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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday. The quake hit in the early afternoon about 250 miles west of Newport at a depth of about 6 miles. Few people appear to have felt it and no injuries or damage was reported,
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The entire Oregon coastline is under a tsunami advisory, according to the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. One of the largest earthquakes of ...
A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower than previously thought, with impacts on potential peak ground shaking during a Cascadia megathrust earthquake.