Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 139 km W of Ferndale, California (86 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.62 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -125.9006667 West, latitude 40.4481667 North, depth = 18.62 km. Unique identifier: nc72650196. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72650196. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/16 / 2016-06-12 02:21:50 / June 12, 2016 @ 2:21 am UTC/GMT. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:50 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 139 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.9006667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4481667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	139km 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	2016-06-12 02:21:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-14 01:43:02	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	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	127	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.241	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	288	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	nc72650196	Id of event.
Event Code	72650196	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72650196,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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