Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Ocean Shores in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ocean Shores in Washington on Tuesday. Unique identifier: uw61523611. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61523611. The temblor was reported at 03:11:28 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.08366666667 West, latitude 47.113833333333 North, depth = 34.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.03 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/05/19 / 2019-05-21 11:11:28 / May 21, 2019 @ 11:11 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Aberdeen (c. 16 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shelton (c. 9 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hoquiam (c. 8 700 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Ocean Shores (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shelton, Aberdeen, Hoquiam.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 16 km NNE of Ocean Shores, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.08366666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.113833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNE of Ocean Shores, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-21 11:11:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-21 11:27:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.11	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	177	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	23	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	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	uw61523611	Id of event.
Event Code	61523611	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61523611,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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