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Minor earthquake 3.41 mag, 12 km WNW of Covelo, CA


Earthquake location 39.8523331S, -123.3651657WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Covelo in CA on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -123.3651657 West, latitude 39.8523331 North, depth = 5.73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.73 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.41-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:15:16 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/20 / 2020-09-14 14:15:16 / September 14, 2020 @ 2:15 pm. Event id: nc73457786. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73457786.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 12 km WNW of Covelo, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.41 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.3651657° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8523331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WNW of Covelo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-14 14:15:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-14 14:17:20 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 179 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 nc73457786 Id of event.
Event Code 73457786 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73457786, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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