Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 82 km W of Ferndale, California (51 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.2 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72560466. Id of event: nc72560466. The temblor was reported at 06:09:39 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 14:09:39 / November 25, 2015 @ 2:09 pm. Exact location, longitude -125.2342° West, latitude 40.4858° North, depth = 4.2 km.

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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 82 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.2342° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4858° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km 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	2015-11-25 14:09:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-03 20:31:17	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6827196	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	313.199974944	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	nc72560466	Id of event.
Event Code	72560466	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72560466,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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