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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag was detected near Bandon in Oregon

Posted by admin on August 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.623S, -127.982WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 294 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (183 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 09:31:44 / August 22, 2018 @ 9:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: at00pduvsw. Event ids that are associated: at00pduvsw. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:31:44 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -127.982° West, 43.623° North, depth 12 km.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 294 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 294km 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 2018-08-22 09:31:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-22 09:43:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 1 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 611 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.055345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179.9999856 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pduvsw Id of event.
Event Code 00pduvsw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pduvsw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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