A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Rancho Tehama Reserve in California. Unique identifier: nc72524276. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72524276. Global time and date of event 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 13:11:06 / September 12, 2015 @ 1:11 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:11:06 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.43 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -122.7421646° West, 39.8079987° North, depth 4.43 km.
Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anderson, Chico, Red Bluff (min 5000 pop).
Every 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 37 km SW of Rancho Tehama Reserve, California.
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