Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 25 km WNW of Forks, Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 km WNW of Forks, Washington (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.69683333333° West, 48.036333333333° North, depth 39.14 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:11:03 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.14 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: uw61692886. Event ids that are associated: uw61692886. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/10/20 / 2020-10-13 07:11:03 / October 13, 2020 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km WNW of Forks, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.69683333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.036333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km WNW of Forks, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-13 07:11:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-13 17:48:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	133	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	0.1249	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	uw61692886	Id of event.
Event Code	61692886	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61692886,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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