Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Yakima in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Yakima in Washington on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.68 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 03:02:22 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61409041. Unique identifier: uw61409041. Exact location of event, longitude -120.5475006 West, latitude 46.6066666 North, depth = 16.68 km. Global time and date of event 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 11:02:22 / July 16, 2018 @ 11:02 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Prosser, Grandview, Sunnyside. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 3 km (2 miles) from Yakima (c. 91 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from West Valley (c. 12 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Grandview (c. 10 900 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km W of Yakima, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.5475006° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.6066666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km W of Yakima, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-16 11:02:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-16 11:05:47	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	138	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	uw61409041	Id of event.
Event Code	61409041	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61409041,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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