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Aug 5 1910 and Sept 21 1993... both were about the same in shock size. The 1910 earthquake was the largest historical shock within the state's boundaries, but it occurred too far offshore to cause damage, whereas the damaging 1993 earthquake was the largest historical earthquake beneath the land area of Oregon

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