A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Ferndale in California. The temblor was detected at 13:23:12 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72556016. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72556016. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.6 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.788002 West, latitude 40.480835 North, depth = 2.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 21:23:12 / November 15, 2015 @ 9:23 pm.
Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 45 km WSW of Ferndale, California.
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