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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, Off the coast of Oregon


Earthquake location 44.0154S, -128.7675WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes Off the coast of Oregon (0 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 05:10:22 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 14:10:22 / July 29, 2018 @ 2:10 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -128.7675° West, 44.0154° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00pcmspc, us2000ggpr. Unique identifier: us2000ggpr.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.7675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the coast of Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 14:10:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 14:31:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 432 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 ,at,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 3.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ggpr Id of event.
Event Code 2000ggpr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pcmspc,us2000ggpr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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