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Light earthquake: M4.69 quake strikes near Brooktrails in California


Earthquake location 39.4690018S, -123.5258331WA light earthquake magnitude 4.69 (mg/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Brooktrails in California. The temblor was reported at 04:33:37 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 38.63 km (24 miles). Global time of event 30/05/15 / 2015-05-30 11:33:37 / May 30, 2015 @ 11:33 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -123.5258331 West, latitude 39.4690018 North, depth 38.63 km, unique identifier, nc72457971. Ids that are associated to the event, ,nc72457971,.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Ukiah.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.69 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.5258331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4690018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WNW of Brooktrails, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-30 11:33:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-30 11:46:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 1.4 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 338 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 nc72457971 Id of event.
Event Code 72457971 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72457971, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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