Minor earthquake 3.69 mag, 6 km ENE of Willits, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Willits in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.67 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -123.2894974° West, latitude 39.4259987° North, depth = 4.67 km. Event id: nc73109006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73109006. The temblor was reported at 12:31:48 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 20:31:48 / November 9, 2018 @ 8:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (20 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Willits, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Clearlake Cloverdale Fort Bragg Ukiah United States Willits

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.69 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.2894974° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4259987° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE of Willits, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-09 20:31:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-09 20:38:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.53	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	211	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05677	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	nc73109006	Id of event.
Event Code	73109006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73109006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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