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Minor earthquake, 3.57999992 mag strikes near Entiat in Washington


Earthquake location 47.710498809815S, -120.34033203125WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.57999992 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Entiat in Washington. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 00:06:23 / May 1, 2020 @ 12:06 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.1199998855591 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.34033203125° West, latitude 47.710498809815° North, depth = 5.1199998855591 km. The 3.57999992-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:06:23 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61618306. Unique identifier: uw61618306.

The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from East Wenatchee Bench (c. 8 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ephrata (c. 7 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Quincy (c. 6 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ellensburg, Ephrata, Quincy (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km WNW of Entiat, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.57999992 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.34033203125° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.710498809815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.1199998855591 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Entiat, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-01 00:06:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-01 00:09:28 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 197 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 26 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 0.100000001 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 uw61618306 Id of event.
Event Code 61618306 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61618306, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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