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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.376S, -126.656WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 204 km W of Ferndale, California (127 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -126.656 West, latitude 40.376 North, depth = 12 km. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:39:40 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p34ea4. Id of event: at00p34ea4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 16:39:40 / January 25, 2018 @ 4:39 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ferndale in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 204 km W of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 204km 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 2018-01-25 16:39:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 16:47:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 1 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 525 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.770579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233.99998128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00p34ea4 Id of event.
Event Code 00p34ea4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p34ea4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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