Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag was detected near Laytonville in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Laytonville in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.79 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nc72719830. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72719830. Exact location of event, longitude -123.6448364 West, latitude 39.6611671 North, depth = -0.79 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/16 / 2016-11-03 12:57:33 / November 3, 2016 @ 12:57 pm. The 3.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:57:33 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km WSW of Laytonville, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.6448364° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.6611671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km WSW of Laytonville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-03 12:57:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-03 13:15:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.98	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	233	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05432	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	nc72719830	Id of event.
Event Code	72719830	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72719830,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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