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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 151 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon

Posted by admin on September 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.8666S, -126.1106WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 151 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon (94 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -126.1106 West, latitude 41.8666 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Gold Beach in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:01:50 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/09/16 / 2016-09-25 05:01:50 / September 25, 2016 @ 5:01 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00oe1nb3, us10006shx. Unique identifier: us10006shx.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 151 km WSW of Gold Beach, Oregon.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.1106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151km 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 2016-09-25 05:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-25 05:21:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 ,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006shx Id of event.
Event Code 10006shx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oe1nb3,us10006shx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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