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Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag strikes near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8445015S, -119.690834WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km SE of Lakeview, Oregon (41 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 02:36:34 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 09:36:34 / September 3, 2015 @ 9:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.690834 West, latitude 41.8445015 North, depth = 0.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.08 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uw61074281. Event ids that are associated: uw61074281.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km SE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.690834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8445015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SE 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 2015-09-03 09:36:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-03 09:41:17 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 automatic 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 159 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uw61074281 Id of event.
Event Code 61074281 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61074281, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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