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Minor earthquake: M2.9881073236465 quake has struck near Prineville in Oregon

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9881073236465 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Prineville in Oregon. Event id: uw62064837. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw62064837. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 20:30:18 / January 29, 2025 @ 8:30 pm. The 2.9881073236465-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:18 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.43999999761581 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -120.90032958984 West, latitude 44.251834869385 North, depth = -0.43999999761581 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Deschutes River Woods, Madras, Bend. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (25 miles) from Bend (c. 76 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Redmond (c. 26 200 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Prineville (c. 9 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Madras (c. 6 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Deschutes River Woods (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 7 km SW of Prineville, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9881073236465 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.90032958984° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.251834869385° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.43999999761581 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SW of Prineville, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-29 20:30:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-29 20:34:06	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	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	137	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	24	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	0.389999986 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	uw62064837	Id of event.
Event Code	62064837	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62064837,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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