Small earthquake rattles southeast of Bellingham Sunday afternoon
A small earthquake shook beneath Skagit County Sunday afternoon, approximately 2.3 miles south of Mount Vernon.
The quake was measured with a 2.4 magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s web page on the quake. It struck at 3:45p.m. Dec. 5. The epicenter of the quake was about a mile southeast of the Anderson Road exit, according to Googlemaps, or approximately 25 miles south east of Bellingham.
The quake was measured 5.8 kilometers beneath the earth’s surface, the USGS reported.
As of Monday morning, Dec. 6, nobody had reported feeling the shaking on the USGS’ “Did You Feel It?” page.
Quakes of less than magnitude 3.0 are common, and tens of thousands are reported worldwide every year, according to the USGS. A quake of magnitude 1.0 to 3.0 is not felt except by a very few under especially favorable conditions, according to the USGS.
