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Light earthquake, 4.3676695823669 mag has occurred near Brookings in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.87816619873S, -125.68283081055WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3676695823669 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 117 km W of Brookings, Oregon (73 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Brookings in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -125.68283081055 West, latitude 41.87816619873 North, depth = 3.9900000095367 km. Unique identifier: uw61557526. Ids that are associated to the event: at00q02zxp, uw61557526. Global time and date of event 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 11:01:10 / October 28, 2019 @ 11:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:01:10 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.9900000095367 km (2 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 117 km W of Brookings, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3676695823669 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.68283081055° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.87816619873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.9900000095367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km W of Brookings, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-28 11:01:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-28 11:07:48 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 1.904 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 automatic 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 293 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 ,at,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 147 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 0.769999981 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 uw61557526 Id of event.
Event Code 61557526 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q02zxp,uw61557526, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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