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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9063S, -119.6207WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 67 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6207 West, latitude 41.9063 North, depth = 24.7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00523923. Id of event: nn00523923. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 02:36:50 / December 25, 2015 @ 2:36 am UTC/GMT. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:36:50 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.7 km (15 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 67 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6207° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2015-12-25 02:36:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-25 02:42:15 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 3.47 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 automatic 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 211 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80.91 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 nn00523923 Id of event.
Event Code 00523923 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00523923, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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