It seems like the earth off the coast of Oregon just wants to move these days. This evening there was an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9Mw off the coast of Oregon. The earthquake occured on one of the corners between the Pacific Plate and the Juan de Fuca plate.

No tsunami alerts or warnings have been issued for this event. Had it occured on border of the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American plate (in the subduction zone) things could have been much worse.