Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Rio Dell in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Rio Dell in CA on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73293740. Id of event: nc73293740. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/10/19 / 2019-10-18 07:11:53 / October 18, 2019 @ 7:11 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.1699982 West, latitude 40.4715004 North, depth = 25.59 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.59 km (16 miles). The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:11:53 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km WSW of Rio Dell, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.1699982° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4715004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km WSW of Rio Dell, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-18 07:11:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-18 07:19:00	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	2.2	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	135	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06599	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158	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	nc73293740	Id of event.
Event Code	73293740	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73293740,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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