Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Anacortes in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Anacortes in Washington. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:59:43 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.56716666667 West, latitude 48.437 North, depth = 5.63 km. Event id: uw61500202. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61500202, us1000hj6n. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 17:59:43 / October 30, 2018 @ 5:59 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.63 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Surrey, Brier, Mountlake Terrace (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Abbotsford (c. 151 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Langley (c. 93 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.56716666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.437° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Anacortes, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-30 17:59:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-31 03:42:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	39	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.7	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	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	143	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	uw61500202	Id of event.
Event Code	61500202	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61500202,us1000hj6n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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