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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Ferndale in California

Posted by admin on December 9, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3308S, -125.1014WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Ferndale in California. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 08:35:46 / December 9, 2024 @ 8:35 am. The temblor was detected at 08:35:46 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -125.1014° West, 40.3308° North, depth 8 km. Event id: ew1733733350. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1733733350. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 76 km WSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.1014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km WSW 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 2024-12-09 08:35:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 08:36:02 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 222 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 10 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 ew1733733350 Id of event.
Event Code 1733733350 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1733733350, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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