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Minor earthquake 3.85 mag, 28 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9878349S, -120.1641693WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) was reported 28 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon (17 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.67 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.1641693 West, latitude 41.9878349 North, depth = 8.67 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/15 / 2015-09-08 08:13:42 / September 8, 2015 @ 8:13 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:13:42 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72522031, uw61076181. Unique identifier: nc72522031.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km SSE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.1641693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9878349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSE 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 2015-09-08 08:13:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-08 08:20:26 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 3.27 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 228 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 nc72522031 Id of event.
Event Code 72522031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72522031,uw61076181, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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