Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 249 km W of Ferndale, California (155 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 22/09/17 / 2017-09-22 16:14:57 / September 22, 2017 @ 4:14 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72896886. Event ids that are associated: nc72896886. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -127.2118333 West, latitude 40.5813333 North, depth = 16.62 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.62 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:14:57 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 249 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.2118333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5813333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	249km W 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	2017-09-22 16:14:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-23 01:33:05	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	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	144	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.193	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	324	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72896886	Id of event.
Event Code	72896886	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72896886,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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