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Minor earthquake, 3.94 mag strikes near Northern California

Posted by admin on May 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4423332S, -125.722168WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.94 (ml/mb) strikes off the coast of Northern California (0 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.67 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/17 / 2017-05-18 03:20:33 / May 18, 2017 @ 3:20 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72802856. Unique identifier: nc72802856. Exact location of event, longitude -125.722168 West, latitude 40.4423332 North, depth = 1.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:20:33 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: off the coast of Northern California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.722168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4423332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the coast of Northern California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-18 03:20:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-18 03:28:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0 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 239 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 281 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72802856 Id of event.
Event Code 72802856 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72802856, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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