A 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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