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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Barview in Oregon


Earthquake location 43.7371S, -125.6131WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 113 km WNW of Barview, Oregon (70 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:55:27 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.47 km (13 miles). Exact location, longitude -125.6131° West, latitude 43.7371° North, depth = 21.47 km. Event id: us1000ekk8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61397001, us1000ekk8. Global time and date of event 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 15:55:27 / June 7, 2018 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 113 km WNW of Barview, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.6131° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km WNW of Barview, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-07 15:55:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 20:20:53 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 us 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.896 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us1000ekk8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ekk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61397001,us1000ekk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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