No tsunami expected from 6.3 quake Thursday morning off Oregon Coast
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Thursday morning, Aug. 29, off the Oregon coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was initially measured with a 6.4 magnitude.
No tsunami is expected from the temblor, according to a tweet from the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center.
According to the USGS webpage on the quake, it struck at 8:08 a.m. PDT, approximately 170 miles off the Oregon coast west of Eugene. The epicenter is approximately 435 miles southwest of Bellingham, according to googlemaps.com.
The USGS estimated the depth of the quake to be 12 kilometers.
By 2 p.m., more than 650 people reported feeling the quake to the USGS. Though nobody had reported feeling it in Whatcom County, there was one response from Victoria, B.C., and two from Abbotsford, B.C.
Though no tsunami is expected from Thursday’s quake, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources earlier this week released a simulation of what a 9.0 quake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone could look like in Bellingham and other communities on the state’s coast.
This story was originally published August 29, 2019 at 8:42 AM with the headline "No tsunami expected from 6.3 quake Thursday morning off Oregon Coast."
