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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Bandon in Oregon

Posted by admin on February 20, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.6272S, -127.8147WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 281 km W of Bandon, Oregon (175 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 21:15:54 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/02/21 / 2021-02-20 21:15:54 / February 20, 2021 @ 9:15 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000djrl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00qouj2b, us6000djrl. Exact location, longitude -127.8147° West, latitude 43.6272° North, depth = 10 km.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 281 km W of Bandon, Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.8147° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 281 km W 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 2021-02-20 21:15:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-20 21:40:31 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 1 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 400 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 2.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us6000djrl Id of event.
Event Code 6000djrl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qouj2b,us6000djrl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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