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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on November 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.5615S, -125.0628333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Ferndale in California. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 05:41:46 / November 16, 2015 @ 5:41 am. The temblor was detected at 21:41:46 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.36 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72556181. Unique identifier: nc72556181. Exact location, longitude -125.0628333° West, latitude 40.5615° North, depth = 24.36 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 67 km W of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0628333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5615° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W 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 2015-11-16 05:41:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-28 01:13:46 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 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 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 nc72556181 Id of event.
Event Code 72556181 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72556181, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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