A light earthquake with magnitude 4.76 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Bayside in California on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/16 / 2016-07-21 23:09:05 / July 21, 2016 @ 11:09 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bayside in California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -123.8970032 West, latitude 40.7171669 North, depth = 22.85 km. Id of earthquake: nc72664436. Event ids that are associated: at00oaotn5, nc72664436, us20006gl1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.85 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.76-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:09:05 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Fortuna, Eureka. Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 19 km SE of Bayside, California.
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