Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Brooktrails in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Brooktrails in California. The temblor was picked up at 01:13:47 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/15 / 2015-08-29 08:13:47 / August 29, 2015 @ 8:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -123.5883333° West, latitude 39.4791667° North, depth = 6.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc71096509. Id of event: nc71096509. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 17 km WNW of Brooktrails, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.5883333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4791667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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	2015-08-29 08:13:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-29 10:21:06	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	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	142	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08362	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	nc71096509	Id of event.
Event Code	71096509	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc71096509,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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