Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was reported 248 km W of Ferndale, California (154 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 10:21:31 / January 29, 2016 @ 10:21 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.96 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:21:31 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -127.1953333 West, latitude 40.7291667 North, depth = 9.96 km. Id of earthquake: nc72586026. Event ids that are associated: nc72586026.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 248 km W of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.1953333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7291667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	248km 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	2016-01-29 10:21:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-30 03:28:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	176	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.256	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	311	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	nc72586026	Id of event.
Event Code	72586026	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72586026,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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