Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag was detected near Vashon in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Vashon in Washington. The temblor was reported at 06:10:50 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/03/25 / 2025-03-18 06:10:50 / March 18, 2025 @ 6:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -122.46516666667° West, latitude 47.387° North, depth = 21.73 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.73 km (14 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw62074482. Id of event: uw62074482.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marysville, Tulalip, Lake Stevens. Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 6 km S of Vashon, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.46516666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km S of Vashon, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-18 06:10:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-18 06:18:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	25	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	171	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03694	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	uw62074482	Id of event.
Event Code	62074482	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62074482,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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