Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Bayview in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Bayview in CA on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 17:28:04 / December 10, 2024 @ 5:28 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 20.090000152588 km, -124.5565032959° West, 40.783164978027° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.090000152588 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nc75101136. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75101136. The temblor was reported at 17:28:04 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Bayside, Arcata.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.5565032959° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.783164978027° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.090000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km WNW of Bayview, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-10 17:28:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-10 17:29:44	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	125	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	28	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	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75101136	Id of event.
Event Code	75101136	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75101136,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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