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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Laytonville in California

Posted by admin on July 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.8038333S, -123.5736667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Laytonville in California. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.02 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:36:10 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.02 km, -123.5736667° West, 39.8038333° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72479301. Id of event: nc72479301. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 11:36:10 / July 6, 2015 @ 11:36 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km NNW of Laytonville, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.5736667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8038333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW 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 2015-07-06 11:36:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-09 21:28:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 reviewed 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 130 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0713 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mh The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72479301 Id of event.
Event Code 72479301 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72479301, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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