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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Brookings in Oregon


Earthquake location 42.0223333S, -124.2715WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Brookings in Oregon. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 00:31:15 / October 1, 2018 @ 12:31 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.22 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uw61424827. Event ids that are associated: uw61424827. The temblor was picked up at 16:31:15 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -124.2715° West, latitude 42.0223333° North, depth = 16.22 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Crescent City (c. 7 600 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Brookings (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Crescent City, Brookings (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSE of Brookings, Oregon. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.2715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0223333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Brookings, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-01 00:31:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-01 22:57:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 139 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 uw61424827 Id of event.
Event Code 61424827 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61424827, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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