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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Maple Valley in Washington

Posted by admin on November 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 47.420166S, -122.05867WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Maple Valley in Washington. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.58 km (8 miles). Exact location, longitude -122.05867° West, latitude 47.420166° North, depth = 13.58 km. Unique identifier: uw61086292. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61086292. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:20:01 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 13:20:01 / November 2, 2015 @ 1:20 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Olympia, Tulalip, Lacey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NNW of Maple Valley, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.05867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.420166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNW of Maple Valley, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-02 13:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-02 13:41:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 128 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 uw61086292 Id of event.
Event Code 61086292 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61086292, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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