Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Morton in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Morton in Washington. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 22:29:21 / September 3, 2015 @ 10:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61074446. Id of event: uw61074446. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.812 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.2675 West, latitude 46.3571667 North, depth = 11.812 km. The temblor was detected at 15:29:21 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orchards, Felida, Five Corners. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Longview (c. 36 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Graham (c. 23 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Salmon Creek (c. 19 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Orchards (c. 19 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Five Corners (c. 18 200 pop). 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 22 km S of Morton, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.11 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.2675° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.3571667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.812 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km S of Morton, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-03 22:29:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-03 22:40:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.61	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03555	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	uw61074446	Id of event.
Event Code	61074446	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61074446,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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