Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Port Orford in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 226 km W of Port Orford, Oregon (140 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -127.2201° West, 42.3919° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us10005gwx. Event ids that are associated: us10005gwx. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:30:46 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 20:30:46 / May 12, 2016 @ 8:30 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 226 km W of Port Orford, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.2201° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.3919° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	226km W of Port Orford, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-12 20:30:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-08 19:40:27	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	121	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	2.183	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	279	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	us10005gwx	Id of event.
Event Code	10005gwx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005gwx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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