A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ferndale in California. Exact location of event, longitude -124.4897 West, latitude 40.3053 North, depth = 8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:01:08 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 20:01:08 / December 6, 2024 @ 8:01 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ew1733515270. Event ids that are associated: ew1733515270.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SSW of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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