A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Packwood in Washington on Friday. Global time and date of event 10/02/18 / 2018-02-10 01:37:34 / February 10, 2018 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -121.7795029 West, latitude 46.5876656 North, depth = 6.66 km. The temblor was reported at 17:37:34 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.66 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61368441. Unique identifier: uw61368441.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puyallup, Sumner, Spanaway (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from South Hill (c. 52 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puyallup (c. 37 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Spanaway (c. 27 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Graham (c. 23 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Frederickson (c. 18 700 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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