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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake strikes near Cle Elum in Washington


Earthquake location 47.0058327S, -120.9451675WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (mg/mb) was reported Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cle Elum in Washington. The temblor was reported at 04:30:04 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 0.56 km (0 miles). Global time of event 08/04/15 / 2015-04-08 11:30:04 / April 8, 2015 @ 11:30 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -120.9451675 West, latitude 47.0058327 North, depth 0.56 km, unique identifier, uw60995606.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was East Wenatchee Bench, East Wenatchee, Wenatchee.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.9451675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.0058327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S of Cle Elum, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-08 11:30:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-08 11:33:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 automatic 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 123 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uw60995606 Id of event.
Event Code 60995606 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw60995606, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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