Minor earthquake, 3.1122089624405 mag strikes near Tracyton in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1122089624405 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tracyton in Washington on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/02/25 / 2025-02-27 13:16:10 / February 27, 2025 @ 1:16 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.430000305176 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -122.62733459473 West, latitude 47.609001159668 North, depth = 23.430000305176 km. Id of earthquake: uw62078371. Event ids that are associated: uw62078371. The temblor was picked up at 13:16:10 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oak Harbor, Arlington, Yelm. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

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

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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: 2 km E of Tracyton, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1122089624405 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.62733459473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.609001159668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.430000305176 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km E of Tracyton, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-27 13:16:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 13:22:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	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	149	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.14	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.129999995 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	uw62078371	Id of event.
Event Code	62078371	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62078371,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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