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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag has occurred near Gold Beach in Oregon


Earthquake location 42.121S, -125.926WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 128 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon (80 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61425811. Id of event: uw61425811. The temblor was reported at 04:02:21 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -125.926 West, latitude 42.121 North, depth = -0.18 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.18 km (-0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/18 / 2018-09-05 12:02:21 / September 5, 2018 @ 12:02 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 128 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km 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 2018-09-05 12:02:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-11 02:14:56 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 141 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 265 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 uw61425811 Id of event.
Event Code 61425811 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61425811, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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