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Minor earthquake 3.23 mag, 5 km N of Hamilton City, CA


Earthquake location 39.7896652S, -122.0078354WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hamilton City in CA on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.72 km (-0 miles). Exact location, longitude -122.0078354° West, latitude 39.7896652° North, depth = -0.72 km. Global time and date of event 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 19:37:01 / November 19, 2019 @ 7:37 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc73306346. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73306346. The temblor was reported at 11:37:01 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Yuba City (c. 64 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Marysville, Yuba City, Anderson (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 5 km N of Hamilton City, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.0078354° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7896652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N 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 2019-11-19 19:37:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-19 19:42:02 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 161 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 nc73306346 Id of event.
Event Code 73306346 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73306346, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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