Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ferndale in California. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.11 km (4 miles). Unique identifier: nc72785701. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72785701. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/04/17 / 2017-04-06 21:15:24 / April 6, 2017 @ 9:15 pm. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:15:24 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.3980026 West, latitude 40.3190002 North, depth = 7.11 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km SSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.3980026° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3190002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km 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	2017-04-06 21:15:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-06 21:25:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	154	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	0.08698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	248	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	nc72785701	Id of event.
Event Code	72785701	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72785701,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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