Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Redwood Valley in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Redwood Valley in California on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72700656. Id of event: nc72700656. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.5 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -123.2278333° West, latitude 39.3498333° North, depth = 8.5 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:20:29 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 06:20:29 / September 22, 2016 @ 6:20 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km NNW of Redwood Valley, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.2278333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3498333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNW of Redwood Valley, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-22 06:20:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-22 18:31:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	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	129	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mh	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72700656	Id of event.
Event Code	72700656	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72700656,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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