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Minor earthquake, 3.581237077713 mag was detected near Fall City in Washington


Earthquake location 47.595001220703S, -121.7996673584WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.581237077713 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Fall City in Washington. Id of earthquake: uw62071396. Event ids that are associated: uw62071396. The temblor was detected at 21:35:14 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.770000457764 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 21:35:14 / January 20, 2025 @ 9:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 12.770000457764 km, -121.7996673584° West, 47.595001220703° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camano, DuPont, Stanwood.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.581237077713 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.7996673584° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.595001220703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.770000457764 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-20 21:35:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-20 21:40:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 200 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 61 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 0.159999996 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 uw62071396 Id of event.
Event Code 62071396 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw62071396, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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