Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near Willits in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Willits in CA. Exact location, longitude -123.2563324° West, latitude 39.3636665° North, depth = 4.33 km. Id of earthquake: nc73467886. Event ids that are associated: nc73467886. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/10/20 / 2020-10-07 17:29:44 / October 7, 2020 @ 5:29 pm. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:29:44 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.33 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 10 km ESE of Willits, CA.

CA Clearlake Cloverdale Fort Bragg Ukiah United States Willits

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.2563324° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3636665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km ESE of Willits, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-07 17:29:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-07 17:33:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07445	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	nc73467886	Id of event.
Event Code	73467886	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73467886,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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