Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Toppenish in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Toppenish in Washington. Id of earthquake: uw61436236. Event ids that are associated: uw61436236. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/10/18 / 2018-10-09 22:34:00 / October 9, 2018 @ 10:34 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.53 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.4206667 West, latitude 46.1031667 North, depth = 17.53 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:34:00 / 2:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Selah, West Valley, Terrace Heights. Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Grandview (c. 10 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Toppenish (c. 8 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km SSW of Toppenish, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.4206667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.1031667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SSW of Toppenish, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-09 22:34:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-09 22:52:03	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	2.84	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	128	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2072	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	uw61436236	Id of event.
Event Code	61436236	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61436236,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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