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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Hamilton City in CA


Earthquake location 39.7856674S, -121.9963303WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hamilton City in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.1 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/11/19 / 2019-11-18 11:00:51 / November 18, 2019 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:00:51 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.9963303° West, latitude 39.7856674° North, depth = 0.1 km. Id of earthquake: nc73305406. Event ids that are associated: nc73305406.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tierra Buena, Williams, Live Oak.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNE of Hamilton City, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.9963303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7856674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNE of Hamilton City, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-18 11:00:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-18 11:06:02 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 129 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 nc73305406 Id of event.
Event Code 73305406 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73305406, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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