Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Marietta in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Marietta in Washington. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.15 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:40:03 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14.15 km, -122.6054993° West, 48.7686653° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61297016. Id of event: uw61297016. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 08:40:03 / June 29, 2017 @ 8:40 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tulalip, Duncan, North Cowichan. Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SW of Marietta, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.6054993° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.7686653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km SW of Marietta, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-29 08:40:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-29 08:50:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	33	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	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	181	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1751	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	uw61297016	Id of event.
Event Code	61297016	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61297016,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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