Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near offshore Northern California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, offshore Northern California kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Northern California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72685956. Unique identifier: nc72685956. Exact location, longitude -124.4544983° West, latitude 40.3078346° North, depth = 18.25 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.25 km (11 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:45:43 / 1:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 13:45:43 / August 27, 2016 @ 1:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.4544983° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3078346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	offshore Northern California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-27 13:45:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-27 13:47:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	153	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1309	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	265	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72685956	Id of event.
Event Code	72685956	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72685956,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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