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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

Posted by admin on December 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.8916S, -119.5906WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:30:38 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100049cn, nn00523848. Unique identifier: nn00523848. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.6 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -119.5906 West, latitude 41.8916 North, depth = 8.6 km. Global time and date of event 24/12/15 / 2015-12-24 20:30:38 / December 24, 2015 @ 8:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.5906° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.6 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 2015-12-24 20:30:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-24 20:52:30 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 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.28 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 298 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1246 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77.55 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 nn00523848 Id of event.
Event Code 00523848 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049cn,nn00523848, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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