Minor earthquake, 2.97000003 mag was detected near Darrington in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97000003 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Darrington in Washington. The temblor was picked up at 01:56:38 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.6695022583 West, latitude 48.269664764404 North, depth = 8.8199996948242 km. Event id: uw61594802. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61594802. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.8199996948242 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 09:56:38 / April 7, 2020 @ 9:56 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirkland, Sammamish, Shoreline (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Redmond (c. 54 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shoreline (c. 53 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kirkland (c. 48 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97000003 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.6695022583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.269664764404° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.8199996948242 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km WNW of Darrington, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-07 09:56:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-07 10:00:09	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	136	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	42	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	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	uw61594802	Id of event.
Event Code	61594802	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61594802,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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