Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Cle Elum in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Cle Elum in Washington. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61064016. Id of event: uw61064016. Exact location of event, longitude -120.7183304 West, latitude 47.2398338 North, depth = 6.74 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.74 km (4 miles). The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:35:40 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 09:35:40 / August 9, 2015 @ 9:35 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Union Gap, Terrace Heights, Yakima (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km ENE of Cle Elum, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.7183304° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.2398338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km ENE of Cle Elum, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-09 09:35:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-09 09:48:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.39	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	138	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03833	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	uw61064016	Id of event.
Event Code	61064016	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61064016,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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