Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 79 km W of Ferndale, CA (49 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 16:42:50 / April 16, 2024 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc74035411. Ids that are associated to the event: nc74035411, us7000mctp. The temblor was detected at 16:42:50 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -125.1966667 West, latitude 40.647 North, depth = 10 km.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km W of Ferndale, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.1966667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.647° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79 km W of Ferndale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-16 16:42:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 16:11:01	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	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	129	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	76	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6766	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	242	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	nc74035411	Id of event.
Event Code	74035411	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc74035411,us7000mctp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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