Minor earthquake, 2.91000009 mag was detected near Home in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91000009 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Home in Washington. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61664246. Id of event: uw61664246. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/20 / 2020-07-30 13:34:19 / July 30, 2020 @ 1:34 pm. The 2.91000009-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:34:19 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 19.709999084473 km, -122.76516723633° West, 47.256168365479° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.709999084473 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Renton (c. 90 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Martha Lake, Snoqualmie, North Creek (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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 S of Home, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91000009 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.76516723633° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.256168365479° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.709999084473 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km S of Home, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-30 13:34:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-30 13:37:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	130	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	83	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	0.25999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	uw61664246	Id of event.
Event Code	61664246	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61664246,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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