Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 66 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (41 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.7039 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6695 West, latitude 41.8665 North, depth = 5.7039 km. The temblor was detected at 18:50:49 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 01:50:49 / July 16, 2015 @ 1:50 am. Event id: nn00501936. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00501936.

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6695° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.7039 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km 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 01:50:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-16 02:39:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	180	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.129	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1279 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	221.46	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	nn00501936	Id of event.
Event Code	00501936	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00501936,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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