Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ferndale in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72951296. Unique identifier: nc72951296. The temblor was reported at 22:00:42 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/18 / 2018-01-09 06:00:42 / January 9, 2018 @ 6:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.3 km (-0 miles). Exact location, longitude -124.8803329° West, latitude 40.4958344° North, depth = -0.3 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayside, Arcata, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km W of Ferndale, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.8803329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4958344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km W of Ferndale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-09 06:00:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-09 06:06:02	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	148	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4145	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273	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	nc72951296	Id of event.
Event Code	72951296	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72951296,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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