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Minor earthquake 2.82 mag, 13 km W of Lakeport, California


Earthquake location 39.0316658S, -123.0751648WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lakeport in California on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.1 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:22:35 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 11:22:35 / December 7, 2016 @ 11:22 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -123.0751648° West, latitude 39.0316658° North, depth = 2.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72734120. Unique identifier: nc72734120.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Roseland, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km W of Lakeport, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.0751648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0316658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km W of Lakeport, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-07 11:22:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 11:33:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 123 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 nc72734120 Id of event.
Event Code 72734120 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72734120, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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