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Minor earthquake, 3.89 mag was detected near Redwood Valley in CA


Earthquake location 39.2796669S, -123.2328339WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Redwood Valley in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.29 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -123.2328339° West, latitude 39.2796669° North, depth = 3.29 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73027396. Unique identifier: nc73027396. The temblor was detected at 09:23:52 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 17:23:52 / June 8, 2018 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Healdsburg, Hidden Valley Lake, Clearlake (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Hidden Valley Lake (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km WNW of Redwood Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.2328339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2796669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Redwood Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 17:23:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-08 17:30:03 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 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.57 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 241 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09088 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73027396 Id of event.
Event Code 73027396 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73027396, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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