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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near Rockport in Washington


Earthquake location 48.612S, -121.3811667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Rockport in Washington. Exact location of event, depth -1.11 km, -121.3811667° West, 48.612° North. The temblor was reported at 08:35:54 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61279177. Id of event: uw61279177. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.11 km (-1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/17 / 2017-07-03 16:35:54 / July 3, 2017 @ 4:35 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Chilliwack (c. 77 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Mount Vernon (c. 31 700 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Arlington (c. 17 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sedro-Woolley (c. 10 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Burlington (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chilliwack, Mount Vernon, Sudden Valley (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km NE of Rockport, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3811667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE of Rockport, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-03 16:35:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-03 17:03:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.41 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 148 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 uw61279177 Id of event.
Event Code 61279177 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61279177, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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