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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Honey Lake in CA

Posted by admin on December 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.2658348S, -120.387001WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Honey Lake in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/17 / 2017-12-13 01:26:00 / December 13, 2017 @ 1:26 am. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:26:00 / 5:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72939151. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72939151, nn00615223. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.87 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -120.387001° West, 40.2658348° North, depth 7.87 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cold Springs, Susanville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cold Springs (c. 8 500 pop).

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

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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: 5 km NW of Honey Lake, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.387001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2658348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NW of Honey Lake, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-13 01:26:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-13 01:32:02 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 136 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1734 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 119 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 nc72939151 Id of event.
Event Code 72939151 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72939151,nn00615223, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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