A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Tennant in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 11:42:32 / October 20, 2018 @ 11:42 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73101241. Id of event: nc73101241. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:42:32 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.02 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -121.6536667° West, latitude 41.6376667° North, depth = 3.02 km.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Klamath Falls (c. 20 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Altamont (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klamath Falls, Altamont.
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 22 km ENE of Tennant, CA.
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