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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Gold Beach in Oregon

Posted by admin on July 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.881S, -126.799WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 205 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon (127 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Gold Beach in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 14:44:52 / July 24, 2018 @ 2:44 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -126.799 West, latitude 41.881 North, depth = 1 km. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:44:52 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pcdkys. Id of event: at00pcdkys.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 205 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 205km 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 14:44:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 14:50:37 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 1 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 482 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.942158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.199983584 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pcdkys Id of event.
Event Code 00pcdkys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pcdkys, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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