Minor earthquake, 2.94000006 mag was detected near Enetai in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94000006 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Enetai in Washington. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 19:17:48 / January 15, 2021 @ 7:17 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.94000006-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:17:48 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 22.510000228882 km (14 miles). Event id: uw61699062. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61699062. Exact location, longitude -122.57499694824° West, latitude 47.587501525879° North, depth = 22.510000228882 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oak Harbor, Arlington, Stanwood.

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 six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94000006 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.57499694824° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.587501525879° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.510000228882 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km E 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	2021-01-15 19:17:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-15 19:21:27	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	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	36	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	48	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	uw61699062	Id of event.
Event Code	61699062	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61699062,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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