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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near Rio Dell in California

Posted by admin on November 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3429985S, -124.2273331WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Rio Dell in California on Monday. The temblor was reported at 13:44:50 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 29.66 km (18 miles). Unique identifier: nc72547785. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72547785. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 21:44:50 / November 2, 2015 @ 9:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -124.2273331° West, 40.3429985° North, depth 29.66 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 20 km SSW of Rio Dell, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.2273331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3429985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Rio Dell, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-02 21:44:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-02 21:52:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 nc72547785 Id of event.
Event Code 72547785 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72547785, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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