Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag strikes near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 71 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (44 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: nn00508822. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00508822, uw61073611. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 21:26:18 / August 31, 2015 @ 9:26 pm. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:26:18 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.2313 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6029 West, latitude 41.9003 North, depth = 7.2313 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 71 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.01 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6029° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.2313 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71km 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	2015-08-31 21:26:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-31 21:45:23	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	3.44	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	139	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	0.151	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.0861 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133.88	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	nn00508822	Id of event.
Event Code	00508822	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00508822,uw61073611,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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