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Minor earthquake, 3.99 mag was detected near Snoqualmie in Washington

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Snoqualmie in Washington. Exact location of event, longitude -121.8239975 West, latitude 47.5213318 North, depth = 16.28 km. The 3.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:22:12 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nul4sz, uw61064752. Id of event: uw61064752. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.28 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Snoqualmie in Washington (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 22:22:12 / September 12, 2015 @ 10:22 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stanwood, Camano, Tanglewilde-Thompson Place (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 0 km S of Snoqualmie, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Bellevue Camano Everett Kent Renton Seattle Snoqualmie Stanwood Tacoma Tanglewilde-Thompson Place United States Washington

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8239975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.5213318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km S of Snoqualmie, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-12 22:22:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-12 22:30:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	29	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	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	255	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	,at,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09702	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	uw61064752	Id of event.
Event Code	61064752	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00nul4sz,uw61064752,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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