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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9052S, -119.6351WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 66 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (41 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.8771 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:42:18 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 18:42:18 / August 1, 2015 @ 6:42 pm. Event id: nn00504704. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00504704, uw61048187. Exact location of event, depth 8.8771 km, -119.6351° West, 41.9052° North.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.8771 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 2015-08-01 18:42:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 19:01:26 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 3.66 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 224 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,uw, 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.0873 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215.79 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 nn00504704 Id of event.
Event Code 00504704 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00504704,uw61048187, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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