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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8614S, -119.6358WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (43 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/04/17 / 2017-04-08 15:28:28 / April 8, 2017 @ 3:28 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:28:28 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -119.6358° West, 41.8614° North, depth 10 km. Event id: nn00584579. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00584579.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2017-04-08 15:28:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-08 15:42:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 0.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1763 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76.02 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 nn00584579 Id of event.
Event Code 00584579 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00584579, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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