Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Chester in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Chester in California. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.75 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/16 / 2016-04-24 03:29:42 / April 24, 2016 @ 3:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, -121.520668° West, 40.1674995° North, depth 2.75 km. Id of earthquake: nc72626740. Event ids that are associated: nc72626740. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:29:42 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was South Oroville, Orland, Thermalito. Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 0 and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.520668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1674995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km WSW of Chester, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-24 03:29:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-24 03:31:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	123	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	nc72626740	Id of event.
Event Code	72626740	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72626740,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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