A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ferndale in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/18 / 2018-05-31 02:27:49 / May 31, 2018 @ 2:27 am. Exact location of event, longitude -124.4798355 West, latitude 40.6894989 North, depth = 16.01 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:27:49 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73023231. Unique identifier: nc73023231. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.01 km (10 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Bayside, Arcata. Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km NW of Ferndale, CA.
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