Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Ferndale in California. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:04:43 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nw9c. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nw9c. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 20:04:43 / December 5, 2024 @ 8:04 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.8507° West, 40.4725° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 51 km WSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.8507° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4725° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 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 20:04:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 20:21:14	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	2.815	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	188	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.56	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241	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	us7000nw9c	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nw9c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nw9c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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