Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag has occurred near Willow Creek in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Willow Creek in California. The temblor was picked up at 23:53:05 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 29.55 km (18 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72793611. Id of event: nc72793611. Exact location of earthquake, -123.7494965° West, 41.2666664° North, depth 29.55 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/17 / 2017-04-25 07:53:05 / April 25, 2017 @ 7:53 am.

Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Crescent City (c. 7 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Crescent City, Eureka, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 37 km NNW of Willow Creek, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.7494965° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.2666664° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km NNW of Willow Creek, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-25 07:53:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-25 07:58:03	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	128	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2238	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	nc72793611	Id of event.
Event Code	72793611	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72793611,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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