This magnitude 3.1 event occurred less than 2 degrees away from Corvallis (CHOR). Note that the event was not visible on the unfiltered helicorder record. However by applying a filter to reduce the amplitude of the low frequency background noise, and increasing the gain, the event became clearly visible.
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Helicorder record. Gain 30. No filter.

Helicorder record. Gain 300. Filter out frequencies lower than 1.5 Hz.

No filtering. Scale set to +- 100 counts.

High pass filter with 1 Hz corner applied 3 times. Scale set to +- 10 counts.