Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Wauna in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Wauna in Washington on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7121658 West, latitude 47.4181671 North, depth = 25.07 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.07 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 18:53:05 / March 15, 2018 @ 6:53 pm. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:53:05 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uw61355072. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61355072.

Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monroe, Everett, Snohomish (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km NW of Wauna, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7121658° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.4181671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km NW of Wauna, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-15 18:53:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-15 19:06:03	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	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	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1649	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	uw61355072	Id of event.
Event Code	61355072	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61355072,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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