Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Redway in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Redway in CA on Tuesday. Unique identifier: nc75104211. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75104211. The temblor was picked up at 01:09:17 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 28.85000038147 km, -123.80466461182° West, 40.263832092285° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.85000038147 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 01:09:17 / December 17, 2024 @ 1:09 am.

The epicenter was 67 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), 48 km (30 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km NNE of Redway, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.80466461182° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.263832092285° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.85000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Redway, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-17 01:09:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-17 01:17:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	170	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02871	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	nc75104211	Id of event.
Event Code	75104211	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75104211,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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