Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag has occurred near Bandon in Oregon

A earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) strikes 276 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon (171 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 15:08:00 / August 29, 2019 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:08:00 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: at00px07dc. Event ids that are associated: at00px07dc. Exact location, longitude -127.754° West, latitude 43.6049° North, depth = 12 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bandon in Oregon (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. 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: 276 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.754° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.6049° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	276km 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	2019-08-29 15:08:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-29 15:11:42	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		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	630	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.600623	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197.99998416	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	at00px07dc	Id of event.
Event Code	00px07dc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00px07dc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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