Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Waldport in Oregon

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Waldport in Oregon. The temblor was reported at 14:21:58 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.9796677 West, latitude 44.2631683 North, depth = 25.07 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.07 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/17 / 2017-09-26 22:21:58 / September 26, 2017 @ 10:21 pm. Unique identifier: uw61311237. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61311237, us2000av5f.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eugene, Corvallis, Junction City (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Eugene (c. 156 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Corvallis (c. 54 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Newport (c. 10 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Florence (c. 8 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Junction City (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km SSE of Waldport, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.9796677° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.2631683° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km SSE of Waldport, Oregon	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-26 22:21:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-26 22:30:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	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	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1823	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	uw61311237	Id of event.
Event Code	61311237	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61311237,us2000av5f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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