Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Gold Beach in OR

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 152 km WSW of Gold Beach, OR (94 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -126.1381667 West, latitude 41.918 North, depth = 22.13 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/18 / 2018-10-14 05:10:22 / October 14, 2018 @ 5:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.13 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:10:22 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73097046. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73097046.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 152 km WSW of Gold Beach, OR.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.1381667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.918° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	152km WSW of Gold Beach, OR	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-14 05:10:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-15 23:46:03	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	133	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nc	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.454	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	293	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	nc73097046	Id of event.
Event Code	73097046	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73097046,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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