Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (42 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.6312° West, latitude 41.8729° North, depth = 9.9 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:26:27 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00523262. Id of event: nn00523262. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.9 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 19:26:27 / December 18, 2015 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 68 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8729° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km 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	2015-12-18 19:26:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-18 21:34:44	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.146	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1695 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	221.22	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	nn00523262	Id of event.
Event Code	00523262	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00523262,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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