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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9744S, -119.835WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 48 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (30 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 19:08:33 / September 26, 2015 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -119.835° West, 41.9744° North, depth 12 km. Id of earthquake: nn00512358. Event ids that are associated: nn00512358. The temblor was reported at 12:08:33 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2015-09-26 19:08:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-26 19:13:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 178 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 ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.085 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153.89 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 nn00512358 Id of event.
Event Code 00512358 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00512358, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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