Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Cottonwood in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cottonwood in California. Exact location of earthquake, -122.1116638° West, 40.3190002° North, depth 14.43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.43 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 06:30:07 / December 26, 2015 @ 6:30 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72572381. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72572381. The temblor was picked up at 22:30:07 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paradise, Magalia, Chico.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km ESE of Cottonwood, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.1116638° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3190002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km ESE of Cottonwood, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-26 06:30:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-26 06:35:32	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	125	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.111	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	nc72572381	Id of event.
Event Code	72572381	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72572381,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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