Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Gold Beach in Oregon

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Gold Beach in Oregon. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:04:28 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/06/16 / 2016-06-27 22:04:28 / June 27, 2016 @ 10:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -124.4703333° West, latitude 42.3883333° North, depth = 20.94 km. Unique identifier: uw61159352. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61159352. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.94 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Crescent City, Brookings (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Crescent City (c. 7 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Brookings (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.4703333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.3883333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-27 22:04:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-27 22:17:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	128	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06827	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	214	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	uw61159352	Id of event.
Event Code	61159352	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61159352,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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