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Light earthquake 4.46 mag, 52 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon


Earthquake location 41.7854996S, -120.0084991WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.46 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 52 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon (32 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72495151, nn00503760, uw61045932, us20003098. Id of event: nc72495151. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 01:05:38 / July 27, 2015 @ 1:05 am UTC/GMT. The 4.46-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:05:38 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.8 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10.8 km, -120.0084991° West, 41.7854996° North.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 52 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0084991° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7854996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SSE 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 2015-07-27 01:05:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 02:36:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.36 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 306 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc,nn,uw,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72495151 Id of event.
Event Code 72495151 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72495151,nn00503760,uw61045932,us20003098, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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