Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Upper Lake in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Upper Lake in California on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 12:03:00 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 20:03:00 / November 22, 2016 @ 8:03 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7856674 West, latitude 39.3181648 North, depth = 10.86 km. Event id: nc72728470. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72728470. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.86 km (7 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orland, Colusa, Cloverdale. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Willows (c. 6 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 20 km NNE of Upper Lake, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7856674° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3181648° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km NNE of Upper Lake, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-22 20:03:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-22 20:07:03	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	129	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	0.1416	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	nc72728470	Id of event.
Event Code	72728470	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72728470,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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