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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Lake Marcel-Stillwater in Washington


Earthquake location 47.707668304443S, -121.91217041016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lake Marcel-Stillwater in Washington. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.019999999552965 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/20 / 2020-12-28 20:05:36 / December 28, 2020 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -121.91217041016 West, latitude 47.707668304443 North, depth = 0.019999999552965 km. Event id: uw61707231. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61707231. The temblor was reported at 20:05:36 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Graham, Spanaway, Port Townsend.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 1 km N of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.91217041016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.707668304443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.019999999552965 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km N of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-28 20:05:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-28 20:10:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.51 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 139 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 68 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 0.300000012 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 uw61707231 Id of event.
Event Code 61707231 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61707231, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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