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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.2135S, -126.0821WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 159 km WSW of Ferndale, California (99 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us7000nwaa. Event ids that are associated: ew1733431180, nc75096241, us7000nwaa. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -126.0821 West, latitude 40.2135 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:39:14 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 20:39:14 / December 5, 2024 @ 8:39 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and five, in the last 10 days one hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 159 km WSW of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.0821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159 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 2024-12-05 20:39:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-21 15:26:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 reviewed 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 180 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew,nc,us, 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 1.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 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 us7000nwaa Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwaa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1733431180,nc75096241,us7000nwaa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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