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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near Westhaven-Moonstone in CA

Posted by admin on August 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.1436653S, -123.9858322WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Westhaven-Moonstone in CA on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.82 km (14 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:10:40 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -123.9858322° West, latitude 41.1436653° North, depth = 22.82 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 22:10:40 / August 17, 2018 @ 10:10 pm. Event id: nc73072796. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73072796, us1000gbz2.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Crescent City, Fortuna, Eureka. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 15 km NE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.9858322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1436653° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE of Westhaven-Moonstone, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-17 22:10:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 22:27:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 173 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,us, 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 0.03156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73072796 Id of event.
Event Code 73072796 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73072796,us1000gbz2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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