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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.3795S, -126.4025WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 182 km W of Ferndale, California (113 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.34 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 15:53:09 / December 8, 2016 @ 3:53 pm. Exact location, longitude -126.4025° West, latitude 40.3795° North, depth = 4.34 km. Id of earthquake: nc72734660. Event ids that are associated: nc72734660. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:53:09 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 182 km W of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.4025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3795° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km 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 15:53:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 01:42:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 nc72734660 Id of event.
Event Code 72734660 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72734660, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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