A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Johnstonville in California on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.01 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.1522° West, latitude 40.8255° North, depth = 0.01 km. Event id: nn00506570. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00506570. Global time and date of event 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 03:43:52 / August 15, 2015 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:43:52 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Susanville. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen 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: 61 km NE of Johnstonville, California.
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