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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Gold Beach in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8079S, -126.7237WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 201 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon (125 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:38:30 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 14:38:30 / July 24, 2018 @ 2:38 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000gcnx. Event ids that are associated: us2000gcnx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -126.7237 West, latitude 41.8079 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 201 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.7237° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201km WSW of Gold Beach, 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 14:38:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 16:11:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 158 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 1.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 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 us2000gcnx Id of event.
Event Code 2000gcnx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gcnx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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