Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 11 km ESE of Willits, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Willits in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 04:01:06 / October 20, 2020 @ 4:01 am. Event id: nc73472956. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73472956. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.62 km (4 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:01:06 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -123.2425003° West, latitude 39.3660011° North, depth = 6.62 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 11 km ESE of Willits, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.2425003° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3660011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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	2020-10-20 04:01:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-20 04:03:55	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	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	130	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	0.07041	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	nc73472956	Id of event.
Event Code	73472956	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73472956,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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