Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 177 km W of Ferndale, California (110 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 18:18:04 / December 8, 2016 @ 6:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.02 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: nc72734745. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72734745. Exact location of earthquake, -126.3533333° West, 40.4663333° North, depth 14.02 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:18:04 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 177 km W of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.3533333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4663333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	177km 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 18:18:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-10 00:15:04	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	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	167	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	279	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72734745	Id of event.
Event Code	72734745	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72734745,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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