Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Joseph in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Joseph in Oregon on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.99 km (1 miles). The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:01:21 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.1326667° West, 45.0823333° North, depth 1.99 km. Global time and date of event 20/08/17 / 2017-08-20 18:01:21 / August 20, 2017 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61296227. Unique identifier: uw61296227.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baker City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Baker City (c. 9 800 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km SSE of Joseph, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1326667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.0823333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SSE of Joseph, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-20 18:01:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-20 19:31:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	134	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	,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2607	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	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	uw61296227	Id of event.
Event Code	61296227	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61296227,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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