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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, 284 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon


Earthquake location 43.5674S, -127.8647WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) strikes 284 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (176 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -127.8647° West, latitude 43.5674° North, depth = 5.41 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 15:07:58 / August 29, 2019 @ 3:07 pm. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:07:58 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.41 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00px07dc, us700059qh. Id of event: us700059qh.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 284 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.8647° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.5674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km 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 2019-08-29 15:07:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-29 15:27:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 98 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 656 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 2.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us700059qh Id of event.
Event Code 700059qh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00px07dc,us700059qh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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