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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8656S, -119.6247WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00513612. Unique identifier: nn00513612. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6247 West, latitude 41.8656 North, depth = 7.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/15 / 2015-10-05 16:06:53 / October 5, 2015 @ 4:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.9 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:06:53 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. 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: 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.9 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 2015-10-05 16:06:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-05 16:22:04 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 129 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1768 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76.24 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 nn00513612 Id of event.
Event Code 00513612 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00513612, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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