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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Ellensburg in Washington

Posted by admin on October 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 47.0628319S, -120.7389984WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ellensburg in Washington. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/17 / 2017-10-07 17:00:22 / October 7, 2017 @ 5:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:00:22 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.75 km (-0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61339006. Unique identifier: uw61339006. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.7389984 West, latitude 47.0628319 North, depth = -0.75 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quincy, Union Gap, Terrace Heights (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 16 km WNW of Ellensburg, Washington.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.7389984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.0628319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Ellensburg, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-07 17:00:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-07 17:03:40 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 122 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 uw61339006 Id of event.
Event Code 61339006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61339006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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