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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.6485S, -126.8238333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 216 km W of Ferndale, California (134 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -126.8238333 West, latitude 40.6485 North, depth = 4.63 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 13:26:14 / June 18, 2016 @ 1:26 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.63 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:26:14 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72652641. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72652641.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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: 216 km W of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.8238333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km 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 2016-06-18 13:26:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-21 01:26:14 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 128 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.902 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 nc72652641 Id of event.
Event Code 72652641 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72652641, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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