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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Burney in California

Posted by admin on January 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.1371651S, -121.6816635WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Burney in California on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72748735. Id of event: nc72748735. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.45 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 05:20:05 / January 6, 2017 @ 5:20 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:20:05 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.6816635° West, 41.1371651° North, depth 5.45 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shasta Lake (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. 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: 28 km N of Burney, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.6816635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1371651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km N of Burney, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-06 05:20:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 05:22:13 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 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 135 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 nc72748735 Id of event.
Event Code 72748735 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72748735, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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