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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 178 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon


Earthquake location 43.1335S, -126.6243WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 178 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon (111 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 07:27:00 / August 16, 2019 @ 7:27 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:27:00 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -126.6243° West, 43.1335° North. Id of earthquake: us600055tw. Event ids that are associated: us600055tw.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 178 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.6243° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-16 07:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-16 07:41:08 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 222 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 1.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600055tw Id of event.
Event Code 600055tw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600055tw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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