Minor earthquake, 3.85 mag has occurred near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ferndale in CA. The temblor was detected at 20:00:21 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc75096151. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75096151. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.930000305176 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, depth 24.930000305176 km, -124.51999664307° West, 40.483501434326° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 20:00:21 / December 5, 2024 @ 8:00 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 24 km WSW of Ferndale, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.51999664307° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.483501434326° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.930000305176 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km WSW 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 20:00:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 20:06:06	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	2.955	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	228	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1394	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	246	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	nc75096151	Id of event.
Event Code	75096151	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75096151,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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