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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Laytonville in California


Earthquake location 39.810833S, -123.4903336WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Laytonville in California. Id of earthquake: nc72473766. Event ids that are associated: nc72473766. The temblor was picked up at 20:16:08 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.65 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.4903336 West, latitude 39.810833 North, depth = 9.65 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 03:16:08 / June 29, 2015 @ 3:16 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fort Bragg. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km N of Laytonville, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.4903336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.810833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Laytonville, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 03:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 03:19:25 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 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 121 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 nc72473766 Id of event.
Event Code 72473766 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72473766, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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