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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Richland in Washington


Earthquake location 46.4068336S, -119.1878357WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Richland in Washington on Friday. The temblor was reported at 10:16:50 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61369557. Unique identifier: uw61369557. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 18:16:50 / May 4, 2018 @ 6:16 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.1 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth -0.1 km, -119.1878357° West, 46.4068336° North.

Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Kennewick (c. 73 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Pasco (c. 59 800 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Richland (c. 48 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Walla Walla (c. 31 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Hermiston (c. 16 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Walla Walla, College Place, Sunnyside. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NNE of Richland, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1878357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.4068336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNE of Richland, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-04 18:16:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 18:19:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 122 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 uw61369557 Id of event.
Event Code 61369557 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61369557, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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