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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 9 km NNW of Swede Heaven, Washington

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Earthquake location 48.3688S, -121.7535WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Swede Heaven in Washington. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.79 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -121.7535° West, latitude 48.3688° North, depth = 11.79 km. The temblor was detected at 07:17:52 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pltg. Unique identifier: us7000pltg. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/03/25 / 2025-03-22 07:17:52 / March 22, 2025 @ 7:17 am.

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bellingham (c. 80 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lynnwood (c. 35 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bothell (c. 33 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mountlake Terrace, Brier, Bothell. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NNW of Swede Heaven, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.7535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.3688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NNW of Swede Heaven, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-22 07:17:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-22 07:43:23 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 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000pltg Id of event.
Event Code 7000pltg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pltg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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