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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Port Orford in Oregon


Earthquake location 42.9641S, -126.4735WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 163 km W of Port Orford, Oregon (101 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000gh9g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gh9g. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/18 / 2018-08-25 15:27:00 / August 25, 2018 @ 3:27 pm. Exact location, longitude -126.4735° West, latitude 42.9641° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 07:27:00 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 163 km W of Port Orford, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.4735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km W of Port Orford, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-25 15:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-25 15:43:28 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 138 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 1.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us1000gh9g Id of event.
Event Code 1000gh9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gh9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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