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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.2971S, -124.5034WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ferndale in California. Exact location of event, longitude -124.5034 West, latitude 40.2971 North, depth = 9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1733609070. Id of event: ew1733609070. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 22:04:31 / December 7, 2024 @ 10:04 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:31 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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: 37 km SSW of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.5034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km SSW 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 2024-12-07 22:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-07 22:04:46 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 199 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 23 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 ew1733609070 Id of event.
Event Code 1733609070 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1733609070, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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