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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8696S, -119.619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 01:40:02 / November 19, 2015 @ 1:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -119.619 West, latitude 41.8696 North, depth = 12.9 km. Id of earthquake: nn00519379. Event ids that are associated: us10003zef, nn00519379. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.9 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:40:02 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2015-11-19 01:40:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 02:59:41 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 3.88 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 ,us,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 0.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2441 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76.44 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 nn00519379 Id of event.
Event Code 00519379 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zef,nn00519379, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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