3.0 earthquake shakes Stanwood
Nov 30, 2015, 1:10 PM | Updated: 1:23 pm
A 3.0 earthquake struck near Stanwood, Wash. on Nov. 30. (MyNorthwest Earthquake Tracker)
(MyNorthwest Earthquake Tracker)
A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Stanwood around 10:30 a.m. on Monday.
The quake occurred at a depth of about 10 miles underneath the Stillaguamish River, roughly 6 miles west from I-5, according to USGS.
Check recent earthquakes in the Northwest region
Though earthquakes strike Washington daily, few reach the 3.0 mark. Recently, however, the region has experienced its fair share. Roughly 60 miles to the east, four earthquakes hit near Glacier Peak last week. Two of those quakes also registered above 3.0 magnitude.
Seth Moran, geophysicist at the University of Washington, previously told KIRO Radio they are watching the Glacier Peak area, because, “magnitude 3.0 earthquakes happen in Washington and Oregon a number of times per year. The one thing that makes these potentially interesting in a different way is they’re somewhat close to Glacier Peak.”
Moran also noted that the quakes happened in an area that doesn’t get a lot of 3.0 quakes.
“The last time there was a magnitude 3 in the vicinity was in 1991,” Moran said.
MyNorthwest’s Stephanie Klein contributed to this article.
