A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cottonwood in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72872780. Unique identifier: nc72872780. Exact location of earthquake, -122.19133° West, 40.3714981° North, depth 13.35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.35 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 20/08/17 / 2017-08-20 18:27:42 / August 20, 2017 @ 6:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:27:42 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orland, Corning, Shasta Lake (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km ESE of Cottonwood, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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