Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 64 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (40 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.006 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 12:55:33 / September 25, 2015 @ 12:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61084086. Id of event: uw61084086. The temblor was picked up at 05:55:33 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.6916667 West, latitude 41.875 North, depth = 0.006 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 64 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6916667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.875° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.006 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km 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	2015-09-25 12:55:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-25 13:19:51	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	133	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1111	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	301	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	uw61084086	Id of event.
Event Code	61084086	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61084086,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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