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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag strikes near Rancho Tehama Reserve in California


Earthquake location 39.9916649S, -122.6955032WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Rancho Tehama Reserve in California on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.59 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/16 / 2016-05-16 01:34:00 / May 16, 2016 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72636175. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72636175. Exact location of event, depth 9.59 km, -122.6955032° West, 39.9916649° North. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:34:00 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Redding, Willows, Anderson. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Corning (c. 7 700 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km W of Rancho Tehama Reserve, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.6955032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9916649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km W of Rancho Tehama Reserve, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-16 01:34:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-16 01:40:03 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 132 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72636175 Id of event.
Event Code 72636175 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72636175, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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