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Minor earthquake 3.02 mag, 28 km SSW of Ferndale, California


Earthquake location 40.3603325S, -124.44133WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Ferndale in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72753880. Unique identifier: nc72753880. Global time and date of event 19/01/17 / 2017-01-19 00:41:27 / January 19, 2017 @ 12:41 am UTC/GMT. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:41:27 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.45 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -124.44133° West, 40.3603325° North, depth 21.45 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 28 km SSW of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.44133° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3603325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSW 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 2017-01-19 00:41:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-19 00:51:27 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 2.2 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 141 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267 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 nc72753880 Id of event.
Event Code 72753880 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72753880, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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