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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Bertsch-Oceanview in CA


Earthquake location 41.7611656S, -123.9666672WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Bertsch-Oceanview in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 05:13:11 / July 31, 2019 @ 5:13 am. Exact location of event, longitude -123.9666672 West, latitude 41.7611656 North, depth = 30.34 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.34 km (19 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73239111. Id of event: nc73239111. The temblor was picked up at 21:13:11 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Crescent City (c. 7 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Brookings (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brookings, Crescent City (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 16 km E of Bertsch-Oceanview, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.9666672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7611656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Bertsch-Oceanview, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-31 05:13:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 05:14:59 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 136 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 nc73239111 Id of event.
Event Code 73239111 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73239111, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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