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Light earthquake, 4.24 mag was detected near Hayfork in California


Earthquake location 40.4394989S, -123.4104996WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hayfork in California. Exact location of event, longitude -123.4104996 West, latitude 40.4394989 North, depth = 35.28 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/16 / 2016-08-28 21:20:52 / August 28, 2016 @ 9:20 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72686711. Id of event: nc72686711. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.28 km (22 miles). The 4.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:20:52 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shasta Lake, Redding, McKinleyville.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km WSW of Hayfork, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.4104996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4394989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WSW of Hayfork, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-28 21:20:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-28 21:24:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 277 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 nc72686711 Id of event.
Event Code 72686711 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72686711, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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