A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Redway in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72759415. Unique identifier: nc72759415. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.79 km (18 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/17 / 2017-02-03 16:18:21 / February 3, 2017 @ 4:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -123.6514969° West, 40.2405014° North, depth 28.79 km. The temblor was reported at 08:18:21 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Eureka, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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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