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Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag has occurred near Burney in CA


Earthquake location 40.7376671S, -121.4991684WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Burney in CA on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 09:06:29 / August 10, 2019 @ 9:06 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.66 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:06:29 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.66 km, -121.4991684° West, 40.7376671° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73246381. Unique identifier: nc73246381.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Susanville, Redding, Anderson (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km SE of Burney, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.4991684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7376671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SE of Burney, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-10 09:06:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-10 09:11:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 150 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0835 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 155 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 nc73246381 Id of event.
Event Code 73246381 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73246381, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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