Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Desert Aire in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Desert Aire in Washington. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.49 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -119.8531647 West, latitude 46.6123352 North, depth = 6.49 km. The temblor was reported at 17:57:51 / 5:57 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/06/18 / 2018-06-02 01:57:51 / June 2, 2018 @ 1:57 am. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61395256. Unique identifier: uw61395256.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moses Lake, Pasco, Kennewick (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kennewick (c. 73 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pasco (c. 59 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Richland (c. 48 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moses Lake (c. 20 400 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSE of Desert Aire, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.8531647° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.6123352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSE of Desert Aire, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-02 01:57:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-02 02:01:09	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	130	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05387	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	43	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	uw61395256	Id of event.
Event Code	61395256	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61395256,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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