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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Westhaven-Moonstone in California


Earthquake location 41.0984993S, -124.3261642WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Westhaven-Moonstone in California. Global time and date of event 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 02:38:50 / July 27, 2015 @ 2:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -124.3261642° West, latitude 41.0984993° North, depth = 22.25 km. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:38:50 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.25 km (14 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72495196. Unique identifier: nc72495196.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Crescent City, Fortuna, Bayside. Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km WNW of Westhaven-Moonstone, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.3261642° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.0984993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WNW of Westhaven-Moonstone, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-27 02:38:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 02:44:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 136 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2363 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 nc72495196 Id of event.
Event Code 72495196 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72495196, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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