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Minor earthquake: M3.04999995 quake has struck near Highland in Washington


Earthquake location 46.160667419434S, -119.10316467285WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04999995 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Highland in Washington on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.11999999731779 km (-0 miles). Unique identifier: uw61527627. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61527627. Exact location of event, depth -0.11999999731779 km, -119.10316467285° West, 46.160667419434° North. The temblor was detected at 11:34:54 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 19:34:54 / June 10, 2019 @ 7:34 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Othello, Sunnyside, Grandview (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Kennewick (c. 73 900 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Pasco (c. 59 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Richland (c. 48 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Walla Walla (c. 31 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hermiston (c. 16 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NNE of Highland, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04999995 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.10316467285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.160667419434° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.11999999731779 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNE of Highland, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-10 19:34:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-10 19:38:01 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 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 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 0.360000014 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 uw61527627 Id of event.
Event Code 61527627 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61527627, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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