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Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Brooktrails in California


Earthquake location 39.4791667S, -123.5883333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Brooktrails in California. The temblor was picked up at 01:13:47 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/15 / 2015-08-29 08:13:47 / August 29, 2015 @ 8:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -123.5883333° West, latitude 39.4791667° North, depth = 6.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc71096509. Id of event: nc71096509. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 17 km WNW of Brooktrails, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.5883333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4791667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WNW of Brooktrails, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-29 08:13:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-29 10:21:06 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 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 142 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 nc71096509 Id of event.
Event Code 71096509 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc71096509, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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