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Minor earthquake: M2.56 quake strikes near Lakeview in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.8584S, -119.6567WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.56 (mg/mb) has striked on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Lakeview in Oregon. The temblor was reported at 10:31:27 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 7.5654 km (5 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-16 06:31:27 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -119.6567 West, latitude 41.8584 North, depth 7.5654 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.6567° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.5654 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-16 06:31:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-16 08:19:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 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 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 101 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources nn A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1116 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122.06 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 nn00483068 Id of event.
Event Code 00483068 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nn00483068 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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