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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag was detected near Prattville in CA


Earthquake location 40.2163315S, -121.1433334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Prattville in CA on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -121.1433334° West, latitude 40.2163315° North, depth = -1.9 km. Global time and date of event 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 13:12:52 / July 4, 2020 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:12:52 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73421341. Event ids that are associated: nc73421341. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.9 km (-1 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chico, Paradise, Magalia (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NE of Prattville, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1433334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2163315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NE of Prattville, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-04 13:12:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-04 13:18:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 170 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 nc73421341 Id of event.
Event Code 73421341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73421341, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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