Minor earthquake, 3.0999999 mag has occurred near Cathcart in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.0999999 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Cathcart in Washington on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 12:21:09 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/20 / 2020-11-05 12:21:09 / November 5, 2020 @ 12:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.219999313354 km (16 miles). Id of earthquake: uw61689372. Event ids that are associated: uw61689372. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.07783508301 West, latitude 47.854831695557 North, depth = 25.219999313354 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Midland, Sequim, Prairie Ridge. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 1 km ENE of Cathcart, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.0999999 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.07783508301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.854831695557° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.219999313354 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km ENE of Cathcart, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-05 12:21:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-05 12:30:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.34	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	148	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	58	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	0.150000006 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	uw61689372	Id of event.
Event Code	61689372	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61689372,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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