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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on December 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.381S, -126.427WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 184 km W of Ferndale, California (114 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:32:48 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 16:32:48 / December 8, 2016 @ 4:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -126.427 West, latitude 40.381 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ohvkmo. Unique identifier: at00ohvkmo. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ferndale in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 184 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km W 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 2016-12-08 16:32:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 16:36:29 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 1 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 416 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.596306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.599980992 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ohvkmo Id of event.
Event Code 00ohvkmo An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ohvkmo, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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