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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Gold Beach in Oregon


Earthquake location 41.9059S, -127.8795WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 291 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon (181 miles). Unique identifier: us2000gcx4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gcx4. Exact location of earthquake, -127.8795° West, 41.9059° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 18:56:34 / July 24, 2018 @ 6:56 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:56:34 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 291 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.8795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 291km W of Gold Beach, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-24 18:56:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 19:40:09 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 2.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 us2000gcx4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gcx4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gcx4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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