Minor earthquake 3 mag, 194 km W of Bandon, Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 194 km W of Bandon, Oregon (121 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:42:48 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000awyk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awyk. Global time and date of event 29/09/17 / 2017-09-29 21:42:48 / September 29, 2017 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -126.7627° West, 43.4196° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 194 km W of Bandon, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.7627° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.4196° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	194km W of Bandon, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-29 21:42:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-29 22:13:00	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	138	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	1.859	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	242	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	us2000awyk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000awyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000awyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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