Minor earthquake: M2.95 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ferndale in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 00:22:38 / November 14, 2016 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 25.38 km, -124.49° West, 40.4038333° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.38 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:22:38 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72724660. Unique identifier: nc72724660.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SW of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.49° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4038333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SW 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	2016-11-14 00:22:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-15 02:32:01	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	134	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1367	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	250	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	nc72724660	Id of event.
Event Code	72724660	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72724660,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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