Minor earthquake, 3.85 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ferndale in California on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -124.8041687° West, 40.3338318° North, depth 10.23 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/17 / 2017-03-06 19:19:19 / March 6, 2017 @ 7:19 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.23 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:19:19 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72771146. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72771146.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.8041687° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3338318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km WSW 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	2017-03-06 19:19:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-06 19:25:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	228	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3835	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	268	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	nc72771146	Id of event.
Event Code	72771146	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72771146,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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