Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag strikes near Hayfork in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hayfork in CA on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -123.3939972° West, latitude 40.4796677° North, depth = 29.37 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.37 km (18 miles). The 3.59-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:49:06 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/12/17 / 2017-12-31 19:49:06 / December 31, 2017 @ 7:49 pm. Event id: nc72946846. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72946846.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Eureka, Arcata (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 20 km WSW of Hayfork, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.59 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.3939972° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4796677° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km WSW of Hayfork, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-31 19:49:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-31 19:58:09	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	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	1.58	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	199	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1358	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	nc72946846	Id of event.
Event Code	72946846	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72946846,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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