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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Port Townsend in Washington

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Port Townsend in Washington on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.34 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uw61272661. Event ids that are associated: uw61272661. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 05:07:03 / April 20, 2017 @ 5:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -122.7516632° West, 48.1565018° North, depth 19.34 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:07:03 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ferndale, White Center, Mercer Island (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bellingham (c. 80 900 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km N of Port Townsend, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7516632° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.1565018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km N of Port Townsend, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-20 05:07:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-20 05:11:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	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	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1546	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	48	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	uw61272661	Id of event.
Event Code	61272661	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61272661,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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