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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Montgomery Creek in CA


Earthquake location 40.8846664S, -121.9843369WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Montgomery Creek in CA. Event id: nc73140335. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73140335. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.99 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 24.99 km, -121.9843369° West, 40.8846664° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 17:21:18 / February 9, 2019 @ 5:21 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:21:18 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anderson, Redding, Shasta Lake. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km NW of Montgomery Creek, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.9843369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8846664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of Montgomery Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-09 17:21:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-09 17:33:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 126 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 nc73140335 Id of event.
Event Code 73140335 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73140335, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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