Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Toppenish in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Toppenish in Washington. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/17 / 2017-10-17 14:57:13 / October 17, 2017 @ 2:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -120.7043304° West, 46.1604996° North, depth -0.61 km. The temblor was reported at 06:57:13 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: uw61342796. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61342796. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.61 km (-0 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Dalles, Prosser, Grandview. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from The Dalles (c. 13 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Grandview (c. 10 900 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.7043304° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.1604996° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km SW of Toppenish, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-17 14:57:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-17 15:01:25	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	144	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	76	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3309	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	uw61342796	Id of event.
Event Code	61342796	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61342796,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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