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GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. — An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 shook the Mount Hood area early Saturday but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Bill Steele of the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network said the quake hit at 7:36 a.m. and was centered about three miles south of the summit of Mount Hood and was about four miles deep.
It was the strongest quake in the area in recent decades, he said, and had been followed by hundreds of small aftershocks.
He said it was related to the volcanic activity of the mountain but that it did not signal any eruption.
"It is reasonable to expect aftershocks of a magnitude of three or greater" within the next few weeks, he said.
Steele said there have been several groups of quakes around the mountain since the 1970s. "This was stronger than any of those," he said.
"It shook the mobile home, the beds, the floors, but obviously there was no damage," Dale Roberts of Maupin said.
Mark Vincent, general manager at Timberline Lodge ski area on the mountain said the quake registered "a sharp jolt" and a couple of lesser aftershocks.
"If you were sitting you might have felt (the aftershocks) but if you were walking you might not have felt them," he said.
"We checked out the facilities and everything is fine."
A quake of a magnitude of 4 can cause moderate damage in built-up areas. A magnitude of 5 can cause considerable damage.
On May 15 Oregon felt two earthquakes, one measuring 4.3 in the Klamath Falls area and another of a 5.4 magnitude off the coast of Coos Bay.
There were no damage or injury reports from either quake.
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Kindgo
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