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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Darrington in Washington


Earthquake location 48.1198333S, -121.1948333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Darrington in Washington. Event id: uw61093837. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61093837. The temblor was detected at 13:20:37 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 21:20:37 / November 25, 2015 @ 9:20 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.482 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -121.1948333 West, latitude 48.1198333 North, depth = 11.482 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Martha Lake, Woodinville, North Bend. Event epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Lake Stevens (c. 28 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from North Creek (c. 26 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Cottage Lake (c. 22 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from West Lake Stevens (c. 21 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 33 km ESE of Darrington, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1948333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.1198333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.482 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km 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 21:20:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 21:29:30 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 2.39 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 188 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 uw61093837 Id of event.
Event Code 61093837 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61093837, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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