PF+Earthquake+Brooks,+Oregon+Sept.+23,+2007

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I believe that this is the data taken from a 3.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Brooks, Oregon on September 23, 2007. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network detected this earthquake at about 11:51 p.m. Pacific time (6:21 GMT the next day). LIGO detected it about 4 minutes later GMT. I found my eartquake data [|here.] My argument for this graph being that particular earthquake is that the graph was made approximately 2-3 minutes after it occurred. S-waves (which I think is being detected here) can travel through the earth at about 3.2km/s. Brooks, Oregon is 288 miles (463.49 km.) away from Hanford, Washington where LIGO is located. Therefore, the quake would have been detected about 2.414 minutes after it occurred. Additional information on this earthquake can be found [|here.]