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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Johnstonville in California


Earthquake location 40.8255S, -120.1522WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Johnstonville in California on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.01 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.1522° West, latitude 40.8255° North, depth = 0.01 km. Event id: nn00506570. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00506570. Global time and date of event 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 03:43:52 / August 15, 2015 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:43:52 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Susanville. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Susanville (c. 17 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 61 km NE of Johnstonville, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.1522° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km NE of Johnstonville, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-15 03:43:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 03:46:39 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.654 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 302.78 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 nn00506570 Id of event.
Event Code 00506570 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00506570, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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