Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 30 km SE of Lakeview, Oregon (19 miles). Global time and date of event 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 20:12:11 / July 28, 2015 @ 8:12 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00504080, uw61046647. Id of event: uw61046647. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.1348333 West, latitude 41.9668333 North, depth = 0.223 km. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:12:11 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0.223 km (0 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km SE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.1348333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9668333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.223 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SE 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	2015-07-28 20:12:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-28 20:37:08	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	122	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uw	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.141	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	uw61046647	Id of event.
Event Code	61046647	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00504080,uw61046647,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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