A minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6478 West, latitude 41.8534 North, depth = 8.3064 km. Id of earthquake: nn00501971. Event ids that are associated: nn00501971, uw61055581. Global time and date of event 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 05:51:30 / July 16, 2015 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.3064 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:51:30 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.
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