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Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 20 km SSW of Point Roberts, Washington

Posted by admin on June 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 48.8231659S, -123.2046661WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Point Roberts in Washington. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.2046661 West, latitude 48.8231659 North, depth = 57.22 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 17:09:35 / June 8, 2018 @ 5:09 pm. Id of earthquake: uw61383502. Event ids that are associated: uw61383502. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.22 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:09:35 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Burlington, Abbotsford, Oak Harbor. Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SSW of Point Roberts, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.2046661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.8231659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Point Roberts, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 17:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-08 17:15:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 126 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05265 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 41 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 uw61383502 Id of event.
Event Code 61383502 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61383502, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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