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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 159 km W of Port Orford, Oregon


Earthquake location 43.0146S, -126.4096WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 159 km W of Port Orford, Oregon (99 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -126.4096° West, 43.0146° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 11:55:57 / September 19, 2024 @ 11:55 am. Unique identifier: us6000nt1h. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nt1h. The temblor was picked up at 11:55:57 / 11:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 159 km W of Port Orford, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.4096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159 km W 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 2024-09-19 11:55:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-16 13:43:34 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 121 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 271 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 us6000nt1h Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt1h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt1h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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