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Minor earthquake: M3.51 quake has struck near Hamilton City in California

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hamilton City in California on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -121.9865036° West, 39.5940018° North, depth 0 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: nc72546355. Event ids that are associated: nc72546355. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/15 / 2015-10-31 06:10:46 / October 31, 2015 @ 6:10 am. The temblor was detected at 23:10:46 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yuba City (c. 64 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Linda (c. 17 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from South Yuba City (c. 15 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Plumas Lake, Red Bluff, Olivehurst (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km S of Hamilton City, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.9865036° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.5940018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km S of Hamilton City, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-31 06:10:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-31 06:14:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	automatic	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	190	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	87	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2944	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	nc72546355	Id of event.
Event Code	72546355	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72546355,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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