Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 253 km W of Ferndale, California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 253 km W of Ferndale, California (157 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:06:40 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -127.2332° West, 40.9241° North, depth 15.32 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 14:06:40 / January 29, 2016 @ 2:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.32 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20004via. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72586081, us20004via.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 253 km W of Ferndale, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.2332° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9241° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	253km 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 14:06:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-15 08:11:02	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.42	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	266	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	us20004via	Id of event.
Event Code	20004via	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72586081,us20004via,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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