Minor earthquake, 3.85 mag was detected near Willows in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Willows in CA on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 14:44:40 / December 27, 2020 @ 2:44 pm. Id of earthquake: nc73503450. Event ids that are associated: nc73503450. Exact location of earthquake, -122.0156631° West, 39.4915009° North, depth 24.61 km. The temblor was reported at 14:44:40 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.61 km (15 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Yuba City (c. 64 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Linda (c. 17 800 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Grass Valley, Clearlake, Red Bluff (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 16 km ESE of Willows, CA.

CA Chico Clearlake Grass Valley Linda Oroville Paradise Red Bluff United States Willows Yuba City

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.0156631° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4915009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km ESE of Willows, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-27 14:44:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-27 14:50:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.6	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	reviewed	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	229	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2542	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	nc73503450	Id of event.
Event Code	73503450	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73503450,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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