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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Covelo in CA


Earthquake location 40.0465012S, -122.9048309WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Covelo in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72964486. Unique identifier: nc72964486. Exact location of event, longitude -122.9048309 West, latitude 40.0465012 North, depth = 5.75 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:13:53 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 03:13:53 / February 5, 2018 @ 3:13 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.75 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Redding, Orland, Anderson. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 41 km NE of Covelo, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.9048309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0465012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE of Covelo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-05 03:13:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 03:15:28 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 122 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1577 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 nc72964486 Id of event.
Event Code 72964486 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72964486, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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