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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.2853317S, -124.5223312WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Ferndale in California on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72756555. Unique identifier: nc72756555. The temblor was detected at 21:36:30 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/17 / 2017-01-27 05:36:30 / January 27, 2017 @ 5:36 am. Exact location of event, depth 18.26 km, -124.5223312° West, 40.2853317° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.26 km (11 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 39 km SW of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.5223312° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2853317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SW 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 2017-01-27 05:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-27 05:41:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 125 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1982 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 297 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 nc72756555 Id of event.
Event Code 72756555 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72756555, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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