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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 253 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon


Earthquake location 43.703S, -127.433WA earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 253 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (157 miles) on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: at00sm6qxp. Event ids that are associated: at00sm6qxp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/24 / 2024-10-30 20:15:25 / October 30, 2024 @ 8:15 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -127.433° West, latitude 43.703° North, depth = 14 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:15:25 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes 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. 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: 253 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253 km WNW 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 2024-10-30 20:15:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-30 20:20:14 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 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 572 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.406587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.799984736 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00sm6qxp Id of event.
Event Code 00sm6qxp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00sm6qxp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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