Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near Willow Creek in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Willow Creek in California. Id of earthquake: nc72654286. Event ids that are associated: nc72654286. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.68 km (14 miles). Exact location, longitude -123.5595016° West, latitude 40.652832° North, depth = 22.68 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/06/16 / 2016-06-22 16:14:18 / June 22, 2016 @ 4:14 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:14:18 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km S of Willow Creek, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.5595016° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.652832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km S of Willow Creek, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-22 16:14:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-22 16:33:04	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	131	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	0.1743	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	nc72654286	Id of event.
Event Code	72654286	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72654286,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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