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Minor earthquake 3.71 mag, 29 km SW of Toppenish, Washington

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Toppenish in Washington. The 3.71-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:04:20 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.95 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 19:04:20 / October 12, 2017 @ 7:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.527832 West, latitude 46.1646652 North, depth = 10.95 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61317447. Id of event: uw61317447.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Dalles, Prosser, Selah. Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from The Dalles (c. 13 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Grandview (c. 10 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Toppenish (c. 8 900 pop).

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

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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. 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: 29 km SW of Toppenish, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.527832° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.1646652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SW of Toppenish, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-12 19:04:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-12 19:24:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	212	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	100	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.362	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	uw61317447	Id of event.
Event Code	61317447	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61317447,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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