Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 191 km W of Ferndale, California (119 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -126.495 West, latitude 40.3353333 North, depth = 17.62 km. Event id: nc72907956. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72907956. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 15:17:10 / October 12, 2017 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:17:10 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.62 km (11 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 191 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.01 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.495° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3353333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	191km 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	2017-10-12 15:17:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-12 23:29:03	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	2	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	140	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	1.653	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	290	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	nc72907956	Id of event.
Event Code	72907956	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72907956,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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