Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.8243446350098 mag has occurred near Basin City in Washington

Posted by admin on May 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.533000946045S, -119.41566467285WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8243446350098 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Basin City in Washington. Exact location of event, longitude -119.41566467285 West, latitude 46.533000946045 North, depth = 22.979999542236 km. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61523331. Unique identifier: uw61523331. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.979999542236 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 19:18:54 / May 18, 2019 @ 7:18 pm. The temblor was detected at 11:18:54 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Kennewick (c. 73 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Pasco (c. 59 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Richland (c. 48 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Moses Lake (c. 20 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sunnyside (c. 15 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toppenish, Umatilla, Moses Lake (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km WSW of Basin City, Washington. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8243446350098 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.41566467285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.533000946045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.979999542236 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WSW of Basin City, Washington Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-18 19:18:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-18 19:25:03 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 reviewed 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 123 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 30 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 0.0799999982 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uw61523331 Id of event.
Event Code 61523331 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61523331, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today