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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 14 km ENE of Cle Elum, Washington


Earthquake location 47.2413333S, -120.7616667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cle Elum in Washington. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61382986. Unique identifier: uw61382986. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:55:29 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -120.7616667 West, latitude 47.2413333 North, depth = 2.82 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 17:55:29 / April 29, 2018 @ 5:55 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was North Bend, Union Gap, Terrace Heights (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 14 km ENE of Cle Elum, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.7616667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.2413333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of Cle Elum, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-29 17:55:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-29 18:15:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.3 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 uw61382986 Id of event.
Event Code 61382986 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61382986, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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