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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 170 km W of Cannon Beach, Oregon


Earthquake location 45.8538S, -126.1509WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 170 km W of Cannon Beach, Oregon (106 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:18:23 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000r3bc. Event ids that are associated: us6000r3bc. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -126.1509° West, 45.8538° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/25 / 2025-08-23 12:18:23 / August 23, 2025 @ 12:18 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 170 km W of Cannon Beach, Oregon.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.1509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170 km W of Cannon Beach, Oregon Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-23 12:18:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-24 05:30:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 121 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us6000r3bc Id of event.
Event Code 6000r3bc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r3bc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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