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Minor earthquake 2.88000011 mag, 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington


Earthquake location 48.09400177002S, -121.93983459473WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88000011 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Granite Falls in Washington. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/18 / 2018-12-19 00:17:48 / December 19, 2018 @ 12:17 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.52999997138977 km (-0 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:17:48 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.93983459473 West, latitude 48.09400177002 North, depth = -0.52999997138977 km. Event id: uw61507487. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61507487.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was SeaTac, Tracyton, Sudden Valley (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 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 two 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88000011 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.93983459473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.09400177002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.52999997138977 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-19 00:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-19 00:20:55 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 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.219999999 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 uw61507487 Id of event.
Event Code 61507487 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61507487, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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