Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag was detected near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ferndale in CA on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 23:13:51 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:13:51 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:13 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096661. Unique identifier: nc75096661. Exact location, longitude -124.69999694824° West, latitude 40.487167358398° North, depth = 4.9000000953674 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.9000000953674 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 38 km W of Ferndale, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.69999694824° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.487167358398° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9000000953674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km W of Ferndale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-05 23:13:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 23:15:54	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	153	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6075	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	301	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	nc75096661	Id of event.
Event Code	75096661	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75096661,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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