A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sunnyslope in Washington. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/16 / 2016-10-10 06:56:01 / October 10, 2016 @ 6:56 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:56:01 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -120.3594971° West, latitude 47.5351677° North, depth = 3.89 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61204017. Id of event: uw61204017. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.89 km (2 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ephrata, Ellensburg, Quincy. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Wenatchee (c. 31 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ellensburg (c. 18 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from East Wenatchee (c. 13 200 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from East Wenatchee Bench (c. 8 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ephrata (c. 7 700 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 in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NNW of Sunnyslope, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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