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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

Posted by admin on September 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.9795S, -119.6473WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 62 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (39 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.1 km (9 miles). Event id: nn00512427. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00512427. Exact location of event, longitude -119.6473 West, latitude 41.9795 North, depth = 15.1 km. Global time and date of event 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 02:44:01 / September 27, 2015 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:44:01 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2015-09-27 02:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-27 02:49:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 64 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 85.2 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 nn00512427 Id of event.
Event Code 00512427 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00512427, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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