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Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag strikes near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8799S, -119.618WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles) on Monday. Event id: nn00503797. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00503797. Exact location of event, longitude -119.618 West, latitude 41.8799 North, depth = 8.3973 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.3973 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:00:30 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 07:00:30 / July 27, 2015 @ 7:00 am UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.3973 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 2015-07-27 07:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 07:13:47 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 3.37 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 197 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 0.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1191 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122.9 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 nn00503797 Id of event.
Event Code 00503797 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00503797, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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