Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Shingletown in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Shingletown in California. Event id: nc72763261. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72763261. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:12:12 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/17 / 2017-02-13 01:12:12 / February 13, 2017 @ 1:12 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.08 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -121.984169° West, 40.4343338° North, depth 15.08 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corning, Shasta Lake, Redding (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 10 km SW of Shingletown, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.984169° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4343338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SW of Shingletown, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-13 01:12:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-13 01:16:03	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	129	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1479	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	170	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	nc72763261	Id of event.
Event Code	72763261	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72763261,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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