Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Laytonville in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Laytonville in California on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.31 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72932170. Unique identifier: nc72932170. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 10:42:57 / November 29, 2017 @ 10:42 am UTC/GMT. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:42:57 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -123.4714966° West, latitude 39.8003349° North, depth = 6.31 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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. 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: 12 km N of Laytonville, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.4714966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.8003349° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km N of Laytonville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-29 10:42:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-29 10:48:03	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	162	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01105	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	nc72932170	Id of event.
Event Code	72932170	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72932170,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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