Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Bandon in Oregon

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 210 km W of Bandon, Oregon (130 miles). Event id: us6000npc8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000npc8. Global time and date of event 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 18:01:08 / September 2, 2024 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:01:08 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.304 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -126.9604 West, latitude 43.432 North, depth = 23.304 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 210 km W of Bandon, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.9604° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.432° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.304 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	210 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	2024-09-02 18:01:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-02 18:25:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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		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	271	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	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	95	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.139	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000npc8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000npc8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000npc8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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