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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Brookings in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.6762S, -126.809WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 213 km W of Brookings, Oregon (132 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:00:17 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.87 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gcs3. Id of event: us2000gcs3. Exact location, longitude -126.809° West, latitude 41.6762° North, depth = 10.87 km. Global time and date of event 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 16:00:17 / July 24, 2018 @ 4:00 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 213 km W of Brookings, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.809° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 213km W of Brookings, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-24 16:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 17:17:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 121 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 2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 282 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 us2000gcs3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gcs3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gcs3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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