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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.3053S, -124.4897WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.4897° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km SSW 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 2024-12-06 20:01:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 20:01:32 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 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ew The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ew1733515270 Id of event.
Event Code 1733515270 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1733515270, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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