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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 23 km ESE of Three Rivers, Oregon


Earthquake location 43.7371674S, -121.1969986WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Three Rivers in Oregon. Global time and date of event 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 10:30:26 / September 29, 2016 @ 10:30 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: uw61215196. Event ids that are associated: uw61215196. The temblor was picked up at 03:30:26 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -1.82 km, -121.1969986° West, 43.7371674° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.82 km (-1 miles).

Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Bend (c. 76 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Redmond (c. 26 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Prineville (c. 9 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Deschutes River Woods (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Prineville, Redmond, Bend (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km ESE of Three Rivers, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1969986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7371674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ESE of Three Rivers, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-29 10:30:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-29 10:32:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 121 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 0.0303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uw61215196 Id of event.
Event Code 61215196 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61215196, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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