A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mount Hood Village in Oregon on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.6906662 West, latitude 45.3219986 North, depth = 7.5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 02:45:37 / October 10, 2017 @ 2:45 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:45:37 / 6:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.5 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: uw61339596. Event ids that are associated: uw61339596.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Gresham (c. 105 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Oregon City (c. 31 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from West Linn (c. 25 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Milwaukie (c. 20 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lents (c. 20 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Jennings Lodge.
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 in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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