Minor earthquake: M2.95 quake has struck near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ferndale in CA on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.11999999731779 km (-0 miles). The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:09:58 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -0.11999999731779 km, -124.82733154297° West, 40.501335144043° North. Id of earthquake: nc75098266. Event ids that are associated: nc75098266. Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 01:09:58 / December 7, 2024 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT.

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 65 km (41 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 48 km W of Ferndale, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.82733154297° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.501335144043° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.11999999731779 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 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	2024-12-07 01:09:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-07 01:12:01	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	134	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3745	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	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	nc75098266	Id of event.
Event Code	75098266	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75098266,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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