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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Maxwell in CA


Earthquake location 39.3523331S, -122.3539963WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Maxwell in CA on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 17:04:21 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.3539963 West, latitude 39.3523331 North, depth = 4.16 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.16 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/19 / 2019-03-13 01:04:21 / March 13, 2019 @ 1:04 am. Event id: nc73151361. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73151361.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Olivehurst, Linda (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yuba City (c. 64 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Linda (c. 17 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km WNW of Maxwell, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.3539963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3523331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Maxwell, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-13 01:04:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 01:07:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 nc73151361 Id of event.
Event Code 73151361 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73151361, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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