Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 51 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (32 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:27:43 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00512362. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00512362. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 19:27:43 / September 26, 2015 @ 7:27 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -119.7937 West, latitude 41.9673 North, depth = 32.2 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7937° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km 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 19:27:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-26 19:32:23	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	148	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.082	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	83.88	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	nn00512362	Id of event.
Event Code	00512362	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00512362,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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