Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -119.6167 West, latitude 41.8872 North, depth = 7.9381 km. Unique identifier: nn00501946. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00501946. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.9381 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:50:44 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 02:50:44 / July 16, 2015 @ 2:50 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6167° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8872° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.9381 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-16 02:50:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-16 18:22:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.148	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1464 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138.26	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nn00501946	Id of event.
Event Code	00501946	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00501946,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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