Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Sequim in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Sequim in Washington. Exact location of earthquake, -123.0506668° West, 48.2703323° North, depth 24.76 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/18 / 2018-09-09 12:55:44 / September 9, 2018 @ 12:55 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.76 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: uw61426956. Unique identifier: uw61426956. The temblor was detected at 04:55:44 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bellingham (c. 80 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Shoreline (c. 53 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tracyton, Brier, Lake Stevens (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km N of Sequim, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.0506668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.2703323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km N of Sequim, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-09 12:55:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-09 13:10:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	61	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	169	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	uw61426956	Id of event.
Event Code	61426956	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61426956,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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