Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Laytonville in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Laytonville in California on Sunday. Global time and date of event 07/11/16 / 2016-11-07 06:02:48 / November 7, 2016 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.97 km (-1 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:02:48 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -0.97 km, -123.6320038° West, 39.6671677° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72721400. Unique identifier: nc72721400.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km W of Laytonville, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.6320038° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.6671677° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km W 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	2016-11-07 06:02:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-07 06:07:02	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	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	126	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04278	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	nc72721400	Id of event.
Event Code	72721400	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72721400,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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