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Minor earthquake, 3.14 mag has occurred near Darrington in Washington


Earthquake location 48.1211662S, -121.2383347WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Darrington in Washington. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:11:58 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.2383347 West, latitude 48.1211662 North, depth = 0.01 km. Global time and date of event 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 20:11:58 / November 25, 2015 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: uw61093822. Event ids that are associated: uw61093822. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.01 km (0 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Lake Stevens (c. 28 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from North Creek (c. 26 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cottage Lake (c. 22 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodinville, Snoqualmie, Tulalip.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km ESE of Darrington, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.2383347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.1211662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km ESE of Darrington, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-25 20:11:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 20:19:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 2.38 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 152 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 uw61093822 Id of event.
Event Code 61093822 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61093822, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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