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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8933S, -119.6295WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 62 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (39 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -119.6295° West, 41.8933° North, depth 11.839 km. Global time and date of event 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 11:31:07 / August 13, 2015 @ 11:31 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100031xa, nn00506331. Unique identifier: nn00506331. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.839 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:31:07 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.839 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2015-08-13 11:31:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 11:49:10 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 246 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 ,us,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 0.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1786 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103.9 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 nn00506331 Id of event.
Event Code 00506331 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031xa,nn00506331, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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