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Minor earthquake: M3.0210163593292 quake has struck near Cathcart in Washington


Earthquake location 47.858665466309S, -122.06666564941WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.0210163593292 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cathcart in Washington. The temblor was picked up at 15:43:17 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uw61536697. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61536697. Exact location of earthquake, -122.06666564941° West, 47.858665466309° North, depth 26.979999542236 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 23:43:17 / July 17, 2019 @ 11:43 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.979999542236 km (17 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was University Place, Puyallup, Fircrest (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km ENE of Cathcart, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.0210163593292 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.06666564941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.858665466309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.979999542236 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Cathcart, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-17 23:43:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 23:48:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 141 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 47 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 0.109999999 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 uw61536697 Id of event.
Event Code 61536697 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61536697, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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