Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Packwood in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Packwood in Washington on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -121.6845016° West, 46.8796654° North, depth 110 km. Unique identifier: uw61227012. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61227012. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 22:04:57 / January 3, 2017 @ 10:04 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:04:57 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Renton, SeaTac, Issaquah. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Federal Way (c. 89 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Auburn (c. 70 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km N of Packwood, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.6845016° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8796654° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km N 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	2017-01-03 22:04:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-03 23:22:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	134	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03541	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	uw61227012	Id of event.
Event Code	61227012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61227012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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