Minor earthquake 3.29 mag, 13 km SSW of Morton, Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Morton in Washington on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.3436667 West, latitude 46.448 North, depth = 11.38 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.38 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:43:19 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/17 / 2017-03-14 23:43:19 / March 14, 2017 @ 11:43 pm. Id of earthquake: uw61257321. Event ids that are associated: uw61257321.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bonney Lake, Lakewood, Midland (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Lakewood (c. 58 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from South Hill (c. 52 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Olympia (c. 46 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Lacey (c. 42 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Longview (c. 36 600 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.3436667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.448° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SSW of Morton, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-14 23:43:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-15 00:01:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.73	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	169	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	uw61257321	Id of event.
Event Code	61257321	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61257321,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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