[Strategerist]

Far enough offshore (prelim location) based on the USGS shakemap that there really shouldn’t be much damage. not a really populated area anyway.

Of course, too small to generate a tsunami except for the very rare underwater landslide variety.

Appears to have a strike-slip mechanism, so this is part of the complex faulting around the Mendocino Triple Junction, not on the southern end of the Cascadia subduction zone, hence, unlikely to be a foreshock of a much larger subduction quake.

[VRWCTexan]

Thanks - now being reported on FNC

Local Police report at least minor damage

[FourPeas]

Thanks for the info.

[Riley]

North Coast ping-

You up north in the area now- or still offshore?

[baa39]

Thanks Strategerist, I wish the USGS and the emergency services here where I am would be as specific as you. I’m on the south/central Oregon coast straight in from the subduction zone in an official “tsunami danger area”.

After seeing this on FR, I called 911, this would be about 20 minutes after the quake, and they said, “What earthquake?” I told them to check with USGS and take a look online. We’ve been taxed to put in ridiculous 1950’s technology warning sirens, like air-raid sirens. But when the people in charge are clueless, no one will sound the siren.

Problem with Oregon, especially the coast, is almost everybody’s on pot, so hard to get good response in an emergency. Thank heavens for FR and folks like you.

[steve86]

Amazing how the solstice and full moon last month are still having deadly ramifications.