Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Gold Bar in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Gold Bar in Washington. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.6593323 West, latitude 47.8081665 North, depth = -0.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.5 km (-0 miles). The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:09:25 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 17:09:25 / August 22, 2018 @ 5:09 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: uw61411482. Event ids that are associated: uw61411482.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camano, Lakeland South, Pacific (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop). 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Gold Bar, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.6593323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.8081665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE of Gold Bar, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-22 17:09:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-22 17:15:35	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	3.8	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	128	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	68	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	uw61411482	Id of event.
Event Code	61411482	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61411482,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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