Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 239 km W of Ferndale, California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 239 km W of Ferndale, California (149 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.828 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:25:28 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 15:25:28 / January 18, 2025 @ 3:25 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000pky8. Event ids that are associated: us6000pky8. Exact location of event, longitude -127.0718 West, latitude 40.3784 North, depth = 16.828 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 239 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.0718° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3784° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.828 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	239 km W 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	2025-01-18 15:25:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-18 16:29:45	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	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	129	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	,us,	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	2.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	260	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	us6000pky8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pky8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pky8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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