A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Bayside in California on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/15 / 2015-10-29 01:46:53 / October 29, 2015 @ 1:46 am. Exact location of event, longitude -123.972168 West, latitude 40.7991676 North, depth = 23.95 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72545480. Unique identifier: nc72545480. The temblor was reported at 18:46:53 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.95 km (15 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna, McKinleyville, Eureka.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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