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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Miranda in California


Earthquake location 40.2806S, -123.744WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Miranda in California on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1734397700. Id of event: ew1734397700. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -123.744° West, latitude 40.2806° North, depth = 9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 01:08:17 / December 17, 2024 @ 1:08 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:08:17 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km NE of Miranda, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.744° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NE of Miranda, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-17 01:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 01:08:27 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 246 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 36 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 ew1734397700 Id of event.
Event Code 1734397700 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1734397700, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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