A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Vernonia in Oregon. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 05:28:09 / October 16, 2017 @ 5:28 am. The temblor was detected at 21:28:09 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uw61342436. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61342436. Exact location, longitude -123.4851685° West, latitude 45.9281654° North, depth = 21.01 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.01 km (13 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sherwood, Newberg, Tigard (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Portland (c. 583 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Vancouver (c. 161 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hillsboro (c. 91 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Beaverton (c. 89 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Aloha (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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: 23 km WNW of Vernonia, Oregon.
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