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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8411667S, -119.6031667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 72 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (45 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: uw61073361. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61073361. Global time and date of event 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 09:59:45 / August 31, 2015 @ 9:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -119.6031667° West, 41.8411667° North, depth 0.006 km. The temblor was detected at 02:59:45 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.006 km (0 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6031667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8411667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.006 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 09:59:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-31 17:24:16 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 146 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 ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 uw61073361 Id of event.
Event Code 61073361 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61073361, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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