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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on December 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4075012S, -125.003334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Ferndale in California. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.27 km (-0 miles). The 3.11-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:02:26 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 00:02:26 / December 26, 2015 @ 12:02 am. Event id: nc72572216. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72572216. Exact location of event, depth -0.27 km, -125.003334° West, 40.4075012° North.

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 Fortuna. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.003334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4075012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2015-12-26 00:02:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-26 00:05:05 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 149 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 nc72572216 Id of event.
Event Code 72572216 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72572216, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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