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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Baker City in Oregon

Posted by admin on August 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.854S, -117.8953333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Baker City in Oregon. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006tzb, uw61184772. Unique identifier: uw61184772. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8953333 West, latitude 44.854 North, depth = 19.03 km. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:45:23 / 10:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/08/16 / 2016-08-25 17:45:23 / August 25, 2016 @ 5:45 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.03 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from La Grande (c. 13 100 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Baker City (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Grande, Baker City. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 10 km N of Baker City, Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8953333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Baker City, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-25 17:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-25 22:19:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 123 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 uw61184772 Id of event.
Event Code 61184772 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006tzb,uw61184772, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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