Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 km W of Ferndale, California (47 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.43 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/09/16 / 2016-09-21 05:02:48 / September 21, 2016 @ 5:02 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.157 West, latitude 40.606 North, depth = 10.43 km. Event id: nc72699991. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72699991. The temblor was detected at 21:02:48 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.157° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75km W 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	2016-09-21 05:02:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-23 01:02:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	121	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.638	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	277	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	nc72699991	Id of event.
Event Code	72699991	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72699991,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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