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Minor earthquake: M2.94000006 quake has struck near Government Camp in Oregon

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94000006 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Government Camp in Oregon. Exact location, longitude -121.69200134277° West, latitude 45.33466720581° North, depth = 6.3600001335144 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.3600001335144 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/01/21 / 2021-01-17 23:26:22 / January 17, 2021 @ 11:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:26:22 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uw61699337. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61699337.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Gresham (c. 105 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lake Oswego (c. 36 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Oregon City (c. 31 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from West Linn (c. 25 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Milwaukie (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Canby, Lake Oswego, Orchards. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 5 km NE of Government Camp, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94000006 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.69200134277° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.33466720581° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3600001335144 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NE of Government Camp, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-17 23:26:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-17 23:33:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	automatic	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	133	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	19	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	0.159999996 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uw61699337	Id of event.
Event Code	61699337	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61699337,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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