Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Enetai in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Enetai in Washington. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.5771637 West, latitude 47.5821648 North, depth = 21.74 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61278281. Unique identifier: uw61278281. Global time and date of event 04/05/17 / 2017-05-04 11:20:52 / May 4, 2017 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:20:52 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.74 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arlington, Stanwood, Yelm (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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.

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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: 1 km E of Enetai, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.5771637° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.5821648° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km E of Enetai, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-04 11:20:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-04 11:24:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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		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	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	132	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1688	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	32	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uw61278281	Id of event.
Event Code	61278281	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61278281,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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