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Light earthquake, 4.51 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on May 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.427166S, -125.2891693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.51 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 88 km W of Ferndale, California (55 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.25 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -125.2891693 West, latitude 40.427166 North, depth = 2.25 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 22:00:27 / May 27, 2016 @ 10:00 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72642536. Event ids that are associated: nc72642536. The temblor was detected at 14:00:27 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 88 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.51 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.2891693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.427166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2016-05-27 22:00:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-27 22:27:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.69 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 313 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 126 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72642536 Id of event.
Event Code 72642536 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72642536, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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