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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, Off the coast of Oregon


Earthquake location 44.0447S, -128.8964WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Off the coast of Oregon (0 miles). Unique identifier: us10004c5a. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004c5a. Exact location of earthquake, -128.8964° West, 44.0447° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 17:07:46 / January 6, 2016 @ 5:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:07:46 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: Off the coast of Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.8964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the coast of Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-06 17:07:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 20:03:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004c5a Id of event.
Event Code 10004c5a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004c5a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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