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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.4422S, -125.0287WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Ferndale in California. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nwbj. Unique identifier: us7000nwbj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 18:46:27 / December 5, 2024 @ 6:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:46:27 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.0287 West, latitude 40.4422 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Bayside, Arcata (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 66 km WSW of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0287° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km WSW of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-05 18:46:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 21:54:02 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 us7000nwbj Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwbj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwbj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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