Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Sweet Home in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Sweet Home in Oregon. Exact location of earthquake, -122.731163° West, 44.4441681° North, depth 4.93 km. Global time and date of event 22/12/17 / 2017-12-22 21:13:38 / December 22, 2017 @ 9:13 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: uw61361161. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61361161. The temblor was detected at 13:13:38 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.93 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cottage Grove, Dallas, Keizer. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Eugene (c. 156 200 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Salem (c. 154 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Springfield (c. 59 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Corvallis (c. 54 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Albany (c. 50 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 5 km N of Sweet Home, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.731163° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.4441681° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km N of Sweet Home, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-22 21:13:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-22 21:16:03	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	automatic	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	129	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07938	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uw61361161	Id of event.
Event Code	61361161	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61361161,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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