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Minor earthquake 2.5 mag, 5 km E of Redwood Valley, California


Earthquake location 39.2623329S, -123.1411667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Redwood Valley in California. The temblor was reported at 10:36:33 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 8.89 km (6 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-03 06:36:33 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -123.1411667 West, latitude 39.2623329 North, depth 8.89 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hidden Valley Lake (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hidden Valley Lake, Fort Bragg, Clearlake.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.1411667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2623329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Redwood Valley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-03 06:36:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-03 06:38:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 automatic 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 96 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources nc A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72390991 Id of event.
Event Code 72390991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nc72390991 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. redwood valley resident anonymous

    felt two mild house movement and noise 5 min apart feb 2,10:35 and 10:40 approx

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