Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ferndale in California

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 148 km WSW of Ferndale, California (92 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 15:50:13 / December 6, 2024 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location, longitude -125.8749° West, latitude 40.0639° North, depth = 8 km. Id of earthquake: ew1733500230. Event ids that are associated: ew1733500230. The temblor was picked up at 15:50:13 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 148 km WSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.8749° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.0639° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	148 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	2024-12-06 15:50:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 15:50:46	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	271	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	26	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	ew1733500230	Id of event.
Event Code	1733500230	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1733500230,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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