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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8597S, -119.5931WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 72 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (45 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: nn00517774. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00517774. Exact location, longitude -119.5931° West, latitude 41.8597° North, depth = 8.9 km. The temblor was detected at 01:57:13 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 09:57:13 / November 5, 2015 @ 9:57 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.5931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 2015-11-05 09:57:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 10:22:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 121 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 0.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1993 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106.84 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 nn00517774 Id of event.
Event Code 00517774 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00517774, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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