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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Ferndale in CA


Earthquake location 40.498333S, -124.8713303WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Ferndale in CA on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 00:25:04 / June 4, 2018 @ 12:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.8713303 West, latitude 40.498333 North, depth = -0.2 km. Id of earthquake: nc73025081. Event ids that are associated: nc73025081. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.2 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:25:04 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 52 km W of Ferndale, 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 -124.8713303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.498333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km 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 2018-06-04 00:25:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 00:29:00 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4816 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 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 nc73025081 Id of event.
Event Code 73025081 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73025081, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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