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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Brookings in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9063S, -125.6432WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 113 km W of Brookings, Oregon (70 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 18:59:35 / August 10, 2017 @ 6:59 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:59:35 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Brookings in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.6432 West, latitude 41.9063 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ouhgr5, us2000a712. Id of event: us2000a712.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 113 km W of Brookings, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.6432° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km W of Brookings, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-10 18:59:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-10 19:24:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 1 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 355 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 ,at,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 1.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us2000a712 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a712 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ouhgr5,us2000a712, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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