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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.480835S, -124.788002WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.788002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.480835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km WSW of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-15 21:23:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-15 21:25:39 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 121 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72556016 Id of event.
Event Code 72556016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72556016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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