Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Lakeview in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00524465. Id of event: nn00524465. The temblor was detected at 06:03:42 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -119.6066° West, latitude 41.8721° North, depth = 9.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.5 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 14:03:42 / December 29, 2015 @ 2:03 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6066° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8721° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km 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	2015-12-29 14:03:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-29 14:23:15	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		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	188	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.202 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76.58	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	nn00524465	Id of event.
Event Code	00524465	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00524465,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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