Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Snoqualmie in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Snoqualmie in Washington on Tuesday. Event id: uw61065847. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61065847. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.2 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 10:53:12 / September 15, 2015 @ 10:53 am. The temblor was reported at 03:53:12 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.8201675 West, latitude 47.5216675 North, depth = 16.2 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arlington, DuPont, Fort Lewis (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km SSE of Snoqualmie, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8201675° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.5216675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km SSE of Snoqualmie, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-15 10:53:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-15 11:03:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	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	168	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.097	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	uw61065847	Id of event.
Event Code	61065847	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61065847,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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