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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Hayfork in California


Earthquake location 40.482666S, -123.2008362WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hayfork in California. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72604915. Id of event: nc72604915. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 18:11:49 / March 10, 2016 @ 6:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -123.2008362° West, 40.482666° North, depth 29.02 km. The temblor was detected at 10:11:49 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.02 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anderson, Shasta Lake, Redding. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km S of Hayfork, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.2008362° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.482666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Hayfork, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-10 18:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-10 18:17:04 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 129 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 nc72604915 Id of event.
Event Code 72604915 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72604915, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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