Minor earthquake, 2.8143815994263 mag was detected near Loomis in Washington

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8143815994263 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Loomis in Washington on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.710000038147 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: uw62214141. Event ids that are associated: us6000rp4e, uw62214141. The temblor was detected at 12:56:50 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.51983642578 West, latitude 48.797164916992 North, depth = 1.710000038147 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/25 / 2025-11-19 12:56:50 / November 19, 2025 @ 12:56 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Penticton (c. 37 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Penticton (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 8 km ESE of Loomis, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8143815994263 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.51983642578° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.797164916992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.710000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km ESE of Loomis, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-19 12:56:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-19 16:42:25	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	3.8	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	,us,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09085	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.170000002 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	uw62214141	Id of event.
Event Code	62214141	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rp4e,uw62214141,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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