Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Richland in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Richland in Washington. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.04 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:18:57 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/24 / 2024-04-20 04:18:57 / April 20, 2024 @ 4:18 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdec, uw61998221. Unique identifier: uw61998221. Exact location of event, depth 8.04 km, -119.2795° West, 46.245666666667° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Walla Walla, Pendleton, College Place. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (7 miles) from Kennewick (c. 73 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Pasco (c. 59 800 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Richland (c. 48 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Walla Walla (c. 31 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hermiston (c. 16 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 4 km S of Richland, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.2795° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.245666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km S of Richland, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-20 04:18:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-13 23:46:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	358	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.24	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	238	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	,us,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	uw61998221	Id of event.
Event Code	61998221	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mdec,uw61998221,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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