Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Hydesville in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Hydesville in CA. Id of earthquake: nc73330171. Event ids that are associated: nc73330171. The temblor was reported at 10:16:09 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 18:16:09 / January 21, 2020 @ 6:16 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.21 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -124.1295013° West, latitude 40.5569992° North, depth = 22.21 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 3 km WNW of Hydesville, CA.

Arcata Bayside CA Eureka Fortuna Hydesville McKinleyville United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.1295013° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5569992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WNW of Hydesville, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-21 18:16:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 18:17:45	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	128	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1398	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	nc73330171	Id of event.
Event Code	73330171	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73330171,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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