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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Greenville in California


Earthquake location 40.185S, -121.0789WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Greenville in California. Event id: nn00518667. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00518667, nc72554711. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:42:54 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.0789° West, 40.185° North, depth 11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/11/15 / 2015-11-12 16:42:54 / November 12, 2015 @ 4:42 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paradise, Magalia, Susanville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 11 km WNW of Greenville, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.0789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW of Greenville, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-12 16:42:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-12 17:10:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 139 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1227 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75.38 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 nn00518667 Id of event.
Event Code 00518667 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00518667,nc72554711, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Fawn

    I felt an Earthquake this morning around 5:30am in Lake County on Cobb Mt., and it felt like a 4 pointer or more, and it came from the North East so it was not a geyser quake.

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