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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8564S, -119.6304WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -119.6304° West, latitude 41.8564° North, depth = 11.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00519580. Unique identifier: nn00519580. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.4 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 02:46:03 / November 20, 2015 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:46:03 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.4 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 2015-11-20 02:46:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 03:03:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 139 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 0.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1896 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105.41 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 nn00519580 Id of event.
Event Code 00519580 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00519580, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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