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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag has occurred near South Wenatchee in Washington

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from South Wenatchee in Washington. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61364792. Id of event: uw61364792. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.81 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:00:30 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/04/18 / 2018-04-22 12:00:30 / April 22, 2018 @ 12:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -120.5094986° West, 47.2318344° North, depth -0.81 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Union Gap, Ephrata, West Valley (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km SW of South Wenatchee, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.5094986° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.2318344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SW of South Wenatchee, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-22 12:00:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-22 12:03:50	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	162	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	96	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1093	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	uw61364792	Id of event.
Event Code	61364792	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61364792,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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