Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near River Road in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from River Road in Washington on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 19:24:01 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/25 / 2025-08-10 19:24:01 / August 10, 2025 @ 7:24 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.84 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.19766666667 West, latitude 47.934833333333 North, depth = 43.84 km. Id of earthquake: uw62168906. Event ids that are associated: us6000qzp6, uw62168906.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Marysville, Bothell, Maplewood (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Seattle (c. 608 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Everett (c. 103 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Marysville (c. 60 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Shoreline (c. 53 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km SSW of River Road, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.19766666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.934833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km SSW of River Road, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-10 19:24:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-10 22:55:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	126	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	,us,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04764	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	31	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	uw62168906	Id of event.
Event Code	62168906	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qzp6,uw62168906,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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