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Strong earthquake: M6.8 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on December 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4S, -126.2WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 165 km W of Ferndale, California (103 miles). Event id: pt16343051. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ohvfux, pt16343051. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:50:00 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 14:50:00 / December 8, 2016 @ 2:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -126.2° West, latitude 40.4° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ferndale in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 165 km W of Ferndale, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.2° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km 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 14:50:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 15:00:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 53 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 732 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259.199979264 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 pt16343051 Id of event.
Event Code 16343051 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ohvfux,pt16343051, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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