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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Bandon in Oregon


Earthquake location 43.7543S, -127.769WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 281 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (175 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dng0. Id of event: us1000dng0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 03:54:06 / April 19, 2018 @ 3:54 am. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:54:06 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -127.769 West, latitude 43.7543 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 281 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 281km WNW of Bandon, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-19 03:54:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-17 21:25:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 148 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 ,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 2.695 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us1000dng0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dng0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dng0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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