Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag was detected near Three Lakes in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Three Lakes in Washington. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:18:29 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.9178314 West, latitude 48.0009995 North, depth = 15.55 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/16 / 2016-07-01 20:18:29 / July 1, 2016 @ 8:18 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.55 km (10 miles). Unique identifier: uw61176216. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61176216.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lea Hill, Anacortes, Lake Morton-Berrydale (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km NE of Three Lakes, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.9178314° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.0009995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NE of Three Lakes, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-01 20:18:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-01 20:26:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	148	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1946	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	uw61176216	Id of event.
Event Code	61176216	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61176216,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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