Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Bandon in Oregon

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 246 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (153 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:00:00 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 15:00:00 / July 17, 2019 @ 3:00 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: at00puskc0. Event ids that are associated: at00puskc0. Exact location of earthquake, -127.377° West, 43.62° North, depth 14 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 246 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.377° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.62° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	246km WNW of Bandon, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-17 15:00:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-17 15:04:15	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	432	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176.399985888	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	at00puskc0	Id of event.
Event Code	00puskc0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00puskc0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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