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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8763S, -119.6054WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.2 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/12/15 / 2015-12-29 13:33:00 / December 29, 2015 @ 1:33 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:33:00 / 5:33 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00524463. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00524463. Exact location, longitude -119.6054° West, latitude 41.8763° North, depth = 7.2 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6054° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8763° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.2 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 13:33:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-29 13:54:48 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 3.16 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 178 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1538 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76.78 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 nn00524463 Id of event.
Event Code 00524463 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00524463, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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