Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag was detected near Sea Ranch in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Sea Ranch in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.34 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.6060028 West, latitude 38.677166 North, depth = -0.34 km. Unique identifier: nc72721435. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72721435. The temblor was detected at 23:42:40 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/11/16 / 2016-11-07 07:42:40 / November 7, 2016 @ 7:42 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Larkfield-Wikiup, Sebastopol, Windsor. Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Larkfield-Wikiup (c. 8 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 13 km WSW of Sea Ranch, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.6060028° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.677166° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WSW of Sea Ranch, 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 07:42:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-07 07:45:50	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	155	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1978	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	220	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	nc72721435	Id of event.
Event Code	72721435	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72721435,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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