Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (42 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.7219 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nn00508828. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61073641, nn00508828. The temblor was picked up at 15:52:27 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.7219 km, -119.6261° West, 41.8772° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 22:52:27 / August 31, 2015 @ 10:52 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6261° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8772° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.7219 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km 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 22:52:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-31 23:22:09	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	3.04	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	160	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	,uw,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	0.147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1868 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99.89	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	nn00508828	Id of event.
Event Code	00508828	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61073641,nn00508828,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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