Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Port Angeles in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Port Angeles in Washington on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: uw62197602. Event ids that are associated: uw62197602. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.47 km (-0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:12:37 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -0.47 km, -123.50716666667° West, 48.062166666667° North. Global time and date of event 22/10/25 / 2025-10-22 23:12:37 / October 22, 2025 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Langford (c. 22 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Oak Harbor (c. 22 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Silverdale (c. 19 200 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Port Angeles (c. 19 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Silverdale, Poulsbo, Camano (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 8 km SW of Port Angeles, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.50716666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.062166666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SW of Port Angeles, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-22 23:12:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-25 04:08:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	125	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005132	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	explosion	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uw62197602	Id of event.
Event Code	62197602	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62197602,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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