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Minor earthquake 3.14 mag, 3 km SSW of Tacoma, Washington

Posted by admin on January 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 47.2231674S, -122.4713364WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tacoma in Washington on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 11:20:35 / January 11, 2017 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -122.4713364° West, 47.2231674° North, depth 8.49 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.49 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:20:35 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Event id: uw61228202. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61228202.

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monroe, Silver Firs, Mill Creek (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km SSW of Tacoma, Washington.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.4713364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.2231674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSW of Tacoma, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-11 11:20:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 11:34:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.45 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 152 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 uw61228202 Id of event.
Event Code 61228202 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61228202, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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