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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8912S, -119.6568WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 65 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon (40 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -119.6568 West, latitude 41.8912 North, depth = 13.8 km. Global time and date of event 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 01:10:45 / October 8, 2017 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00608431. Unique identifier: nn00608431. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.8 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:10:45 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 65 km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2017-10-08 01:10:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 01:31:22 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 3.15 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 188 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2293 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77.48 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 nn00608431 Id of event.
Event Code 00608431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00608431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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