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Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 17 km N of Redway, CA


Earthquake location 40.273334503174S, -123.8381652832WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Redway in CA on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.799999237061 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75097416. Unique identifier: nc75097416. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 09:05:19 / December 6, 2024 @ 9:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -123.8381652832° West, latitude 40.273334503174° North, depth = 28.799999237061 km. The temblor was detected at 09:05:19 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km N of Redway, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.8381652832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.273334503174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.799999237061 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km N of Redway, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-06 09:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 09:10:51 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 126 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03006 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc75097416 Id of event.
Event Code 75097416 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097416, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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