Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag strikes near Packwood in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Packwood in Washington on Friday. Event id: uw61115856. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61115856. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:50:25 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.3066667 West, latitude 46.5256667 North, depth = 9.069 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.069 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/16 / 2016-01-02 04:50:25 / January 2, 2016 @ 4:50 am.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Toppenish (c. 8 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Selah (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toppenish, Ellensburg, Terrace Heights.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km ESE of Packwood, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3066667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.5256667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.069 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km ESE of Packwood, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-02 04:50:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-02 05:01:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	2.35	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	144	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.235	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	uw61115856	Id of event.
Event Code	61115856	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61115856,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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