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Minor earthquake, 3.51 mag was detected near Fort Bragg in CA


Earthquake location 39.5291672S, -123.9763336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Fort Bragg in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73284360. Unique identifier: nc73284360. Exact location, longitude -123.9763336° West, latitude 39.5291672° North, depth = 9.74 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 00:09:05 / October 1, 2019 @ 12:09 am. The temblor was reported at 16:09:05 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.74 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 18 km WNW of Fort Bragg, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.51 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.9763336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5291672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WNW of Fort Bragg, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-01 00:09:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 00:13:43 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 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.37 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 190 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73284360 Id of event.
Event Code 73284360 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73284360, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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