Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Fall City in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Fall City in Washington on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 14:36:51 / July 31, 2025 @ 2:36 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.09 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:36:51 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: uw62154557. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw62154557. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.85983333333 West, latitude 47.588333333333 North, depth = 20.09 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Lewis, Steilacoom, Elk Plain (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tacoma (c. 198 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bellevue (c. 122 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Kent (c. 92 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km NE of Fall City, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.85983333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.588333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NE of Fall 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	2025-07-31 14:36:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-31 15:36:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	124	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	68	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09099	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uw62154557	Id of event.
Event Code	62154557	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62154557,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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