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Minor earthquake, 3.37 mag strikes near Ferndale in CA


Earthquake location 40.49433517456S, -125.00833129883WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ferndale in CA. The temblor was picked up at 23:31:24 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75096711. Event ids that are associated: nc75096711. Exact location of event, longitude -125.00833129883 West, latitude 40.49433517456 North, depth = 0.20999999344349 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.20999999344349 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:31:24 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-eight 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 64 km W of Ferndale, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.00833129883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.49433517456° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.20999999344349 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 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 2024-12-05 23:31:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 23:33:26 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 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 175 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 nc75096711 Id of event.
Event Code 75096711 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096711, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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