Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 52 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (32 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15 km, -119.7648° West, 41.9955° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). Global time and date of event 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 04:53:54 / December 25, 2015 @ 4:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00523953. Id of event: nn00523953. The temblor was reported at 20:53:54 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 52 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7648° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9955° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52km 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 04:53:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-25 04:57:34	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	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	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.109	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	94.01	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	nn00523953	Id of event.
Event Code	00523953	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00523953,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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