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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on January 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4479S, -126.3954WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 181 km W of Ferndale, California (112 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ferndale in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.93 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 17:24:33 / January 25, 2018 @ 5:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:24:33 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000cpcn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p34gcx, us2000cpcn. Exact location, longitude -126.3954° West, latitude 40.4479° North, depth = 4.93 km.

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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 181 km W of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.3954° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km 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 17:24:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 17:45:15 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 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 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cpcn Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpcn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p34gcx,us2000cpcn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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