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Minor earthquake 3.36 mag, 23 km WNW of Vernonia, Oregon


Earthquake location 45.9281654S, -123.4851685WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.4851685° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.9281654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW of Vernonia, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-16 05:28:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-16 05:36:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.96 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 174 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 uw61342436 Id of event.
Event Code 61342436 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61342436, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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