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Minor earthquake: M3.75 quake has struck near Rancho Tehama Reserve in California


Earthquake location 39.9846649S, -122.8044968WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Rancho Tehama Reserve in California. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72673090. Id of event: nc72673090. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 13:12:27 / August 10, 2016 @ 1:12 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.8044968 West, latitude 39.9846649 North, depth = -0.85 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:12:27 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.85 km (-1 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shasta Lake, Redding, Willows (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 34 km W of Rancho Tehama Reserve, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.75 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8044968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9846649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km W of Rancho Tehama Reserve, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-10 13:12:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 13:28:06 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 3.15 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 216 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 nc72673090 Id of event.
Event Code 72673090 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72673090, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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