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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Oregon

Posted by admin on August 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.2616S, -129.3729WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Off the coast of Oregon (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00pwc5ez, us6000561j. Unique identifier: us6000561j. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:23:19 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/19 / 2019-08-16 15:23:19 / August 16, 2019 @ 3:23 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -129.3729 West, latitude 44.2616 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: Off the coast of Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.3729° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2616° 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 2019-08-16 15:23:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-16 15:42:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 449 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 3.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us6000561j Id of event.
Event Code 6000561j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pwc5ez,us6000561j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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