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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.4853333S, -126.3118333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 173 km W of Ferndale, California (107 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.62 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 12:14:05 / December 9, 2016 @ 12:14 pm. Unique identifier: nc72734975. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72734975. The temblor was picked up at 04:14:05 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -126.3118333° West, latitude 40.4853333° North, depth = 9.62 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 173 km W of Ferndale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.3118333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4853333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km W of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-09 12:14:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 01:08:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 130 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.506 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 322 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 nc72734975 Id of event.
Event Code 72734975 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72734975, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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