Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Klamath in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Klamath in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73293130, uw61555977. Id of event: nc73293130. The temblor was reported at 14:10:49 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35.9 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 22:10:49 / October 16, 2019 @ 10:10 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -124.0916672° West, 41.5105019° North, depth 35.9 km.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Crescent City (c. 7 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Bayside, Arcata (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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WSW of Klamath, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.0916672° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.5105019° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WSW of Klamath, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-16 22:10:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-16 22:18:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.08	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	178	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,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1385	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	nc73293130	Id of event.
Event Code	73293130	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73293130,uw61555977,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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