Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag was detected near Kittitas in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kittitas in Washington. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/16 / 2016-10-10 09:14:42 / October 10, 2016 @ 9:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.13 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:14:42 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -120.4413333 West, latitude 46.9183333 North, depth = 8.13 km. Unique identifier: uw61204087. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007d2b, uw61204087.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ephrata, Sunnyside, Toppenish (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 5 km ESE of Kittitas, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.4413333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.9183333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ESE of Kittitas, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-10 09:14:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-10 10:29:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.36	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	153	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	,us,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08695	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	uw61204087	Id of event.
Event Code	61204087	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007d2b,uw61204087,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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