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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near Covelo in California


Earthquake location 39.874S, -122.8786667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Covelo in California. Exact location of event, depth 8.61 km, -122.8786667° West, 39.874° North. Event id: nc72521541. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72521541. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.61 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/15 / 2015-09-07 16:05:45 / September 7, 2015 @ 4:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:05:45 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Willows, Red Bluff, Orland (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Willows (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km ENE of Covelo, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8786667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km ENE of Covelo, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-07 16:05:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-08 23:12:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 135 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 nc72521541 Id of event.
Event Code 72521541 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72521541, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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