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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Neah Bay in Washington

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Neah Bay in Washington. Id of earthquake: us6000r1zc. Event ids that are associated: uw62173216, us6000r1zc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/25 / 2025-08-19 02:17:24 / August 19, 2025 @ 2:17 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.622 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -124.4146 West, latitude 48.4336 North, depth = 37.622 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:17:24 / 2:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oak Bay, Port Angeles, North Saanich (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from North Cowichan (c. 32 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Langford (c. 22 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Duncan (c. 22 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Port Angeles (c. 19 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Oak Bay (c. 18 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km ENE of Neah Bay, Washington. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.4146° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.4336° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.622 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of Neah Bay, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-19 02:17:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-19 02:27:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.484	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	190	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uw,us,	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	0.138	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us6000r1zc	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r1zc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62173216,us6000r1zc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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