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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Oregon


Earthquake location 43.939S, -128.402WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Off the coast of Oregon (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:00:17 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -128.402° West, 43.939° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 13:00:17 / June 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm. Event id: us600044ly. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600044ly. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: Off the coast of Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.402° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the coast of Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-22 13:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-22 13:22:50 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 3.15 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600044ly Id of event.
Event Code 600044ly An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600044ly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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