Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Ferndale in California. Exact location, longitude -124.3853333° West, latitude 40.338° North, depth = 21.48 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.48 km (13 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:34 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72627885. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72627885. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 08:19:34 / April 27, 2016 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.3853333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SSW 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	2016-04-27 08:19:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-27 22:33:13	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	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	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mh	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72627885	Id of event.
Event Code	72627885	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72627885,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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