Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag was detected near Shingletown in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Shingletown in California. Unique identifier: nc72776521. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72776521. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.79 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -121.8483353° West, latitude 40.6113319° North, depth = 15.79 km. The temblor was detected at 08:09:57 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/17 / 2017-03-16 16:09:57 / March 16, 2017 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corning, Red Bluff, Redding.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km NNE of Shingletown, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.44 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8483353° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.6113319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNE 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	2017-03-16 16:09:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-16 16:18:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	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	182	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1862	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	nc72776521	Id of event.
Event Code	72776521	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72776521,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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