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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Friday Harbor in Washington

Posted by admin on February 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 48.6360016S, -123.1431656WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Friday Harbor in Washington on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 06:57:38 / February 4, 2018 @ 6:57 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.17 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61366651. Id of event: uw61366651. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:57:38 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -123.1431656 West, latitude 48.6360016 North, depth = 25.17 km.

The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anmore, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 14 km NW of Friday Harbor, Washington.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.1431656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.6360016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Friday Harbor, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 06:57:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 07:12:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 147 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 189 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1405 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 uw61366651 Id of event.
Event Code 61366651 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61366651, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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