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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on April 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.357S, -127.039WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 236 km W of Ferndale, California (147 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 14:06:27 / April 12, 2019 @ 2:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -127.039° West, latitude 40.357° North, depth = 12 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:06:27 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: at00ppupur. Event ids that are associated: at00ppupur. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ferndale in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.039° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 236km W of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-12 14:06:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 14:10:34 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 REVIEWED Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 449 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.06343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259.199979264 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ppupur Id of event.
Event Code 00ppupur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ppupur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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