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Minor earthquake, 2.9000001 mag has occurred near Enetai in Washington


Earthquake location 47.592998504639S, -122.57299804688WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9000001 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Enetai in Washington on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/20 / 2020-12-19 15:30:45 / December 19, 2020 @ 3:30 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.709999084473 km (13 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61706156. Unique identifier: uw61706156. The temblor was detected at 15:30:45 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.57299804688 West, latitude 47.592998504639 North, depth = 21.709999084473 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arlington, Stanwood, Yelm (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen 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.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9000001 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.57299804688° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.592998504639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.709999084473 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ENE of Enetai, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-19 15:30:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-19 15:34:07 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 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 129 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 32 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 0.0900000036 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 uw61706156 Id of event.
Event Code 61706156 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61706156, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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