Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Scotia in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Scotia in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:13:52 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.1245 West, latitude 40.4271 North, depth = 9 km. Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 05:13:52 / December 6, 2024 @ 5:13 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1733462030. Id of event: ew1733462030.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 6 km SSW of Scotia, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.1245° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4271° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SSW of Scotia, 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 05:13:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 05:14:06	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	188	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	22	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	ew1733462030	Id of event.
Event Code	1733462030	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1733462030,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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