Minor earthquake: M2.9937525987625 quake has struck near Pe Ell in Washington

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9937525987625 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pe Ell in Washington. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.819999694824 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -123.35900115967° West, latitude 46.555500030518° North, depth = 35.819999694824 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/25 / 2025-12-19 23:29:55 / December 19, 2025 @ 11:29 pm. The 2.9937525987625-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:29:55 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: uw62210922. Unique identifier: uw62210922.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Olympia (c. 46 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Lacey (c. 42 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Longview (c. 36 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tumwater (c. 17 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Aberdeen (c. 16 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ocean Shores, Seaside, Shelton (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km WSW of Pe Ell, Washington.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9937525987625 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.35900115967° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.555500030518° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.819999694824 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km WSW of Pe Ell, Washington	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-19 23:29:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-19 23:35:12	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	138	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1174	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.109999999 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	uw62210922	Id of event.
Event Code	62210922	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62210922,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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