Magnitude 4.0 earthquake shakes south of Portland
Dec 14, 2017, 7:33 AM
(USGS)
(USGS)
Thousands of people reported feeling a magnitude 4.0 earthquake south of Portland Wednesday evening.
The quake was recorded 7.5 miles south of Molalla, Oregon — about an hour’s drive from Portland, according to the USGS. It occurred just before 5:30 p.m.
By early Thursday morning, 4,255 people reported feeling the quake.
People quickly took to social media after feeling the quake.
Oregonians thinking it's the big one when the #earthquake hit pic.twitter.com/QkwbQMTdCZ
— kelley (@kelleygrantt) December 14, 2017
#earthquake when you have a 4.0 and people from SoCal be like pic.twitter.com/7u5SGpofLS
— Mr. T Ferguson (@morris_kr) December 14, 2017
#earthquake shook the entire house, scared the cats, and rattled all of the windows. pic.twitter.com/2YyiWPbeYn
— Rachel Griffith (@ParaHorseGirl) December 14, 2017
According to the Earthquake Tracker, a magnitude 1.8 was recorded in Camano about two hours later.
On Thursday morning, a magnitude 2.3 quake was recorded in Lynnwood.
