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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on August 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.2868347S, -124.504837WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ferndale in California. The temblor was detected at 05:38:48 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.02 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 12:38:48 / August 17, 2016 @ 12:38 pm. Event id: nc72678786. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72678786. Exact location, longitude -124.504837° West, latitude 40.2868347° North, depth = 20.02 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km SSW of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.504837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2868347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSW 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 2016-08-17 12:38:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 12:40:32 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 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267 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 nc72678786 Id of event.
Event Code 72678786 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72678786, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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