Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ferndale in CA on Friday. Event id: nc73372395. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73372395. The temblor was detected at 20:32:43 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.08 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.507164° West, 40.4780006° North, depth 16.08 km. Global time and date of event 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 04:32:43 / April 18, 2020 @ 4:32 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km WSW of Ferndale, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.507164° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4780006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km WSW of Ferndale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-18 04:32:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-18 04:37:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	132	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	260	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	nc73372395	Id of event.
Event Code	73372395	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73372395,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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