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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

Posted by admin on September 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.8542S, -119.6368WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6368 West, latitude 41.8542 North, depth = 11.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:03:30 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 00:03:30 / September 29, 2015 @ 12:03 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nn00512709. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00512709. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2015-09-29 00:03:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 00:26:03 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 3.76 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 271 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2394 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75.67 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 nn00512709 Id of event.
Event Code 00512709 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00512709, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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