🚨Cascadia Fault: 6.0 Earthquake Just Hit Off Oregon Cascadia’s offshore fault system just reminded us it is alive. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit off the Oregon coast at 7:25 p.m. Pacific on January 15, 2026, about 183 miles west of Bandon at a shallow depth of roughly 10 km. USGS says shaking on land was light and there was no tsunami, but that is not the whole story. This quake struck on the offshore plate boundary in front of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of the most dangerous earthquake