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Minor earthquake 3.55 mag, 3 km NNE of Port Orford, Oregon


Earthquake location 42.777S, -124.47533333333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Port Orford in Oregon on Friday. Unique identifier: uw61562171. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61562171. The temblor was picked up at 20:58:27 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.04 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/11/19 / 2019-11-30 04:58:27 / November 30, 2019 @ 4:58 am. Exact location of event, longitude -124.47533333333 West, latitude 42.777 North, depth = 16.04 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Coos Bay (c. 16 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from North Bend (c. 9 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Brookings (c. 6 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brookings, North Bend, Coos Bay.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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 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: 3 km NNE of Port Orford, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.47533333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNE 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 2019-11-30 04:58:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-30 05:08:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.59 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 194 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 ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 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 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 uw61562171 Id of event.
Event Code 61562171 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61562171, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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