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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near Rio Dell in California


Earthquake location 40.2823334S, -124.3860016WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Rio Dell in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72764531. Unique identifier: nc72764531. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.27 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -124.3860016 West, latitude 40.2823334 North, depth = 19.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:19:07 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 17:19:07 / February 15, 2017 @ 5:19 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km SW of Rio Dell, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.3860016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2823334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SW of Rio Dell, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-15 17:19:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-15 17:23:02 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 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 125 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08728 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 291 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 nc72764531 Id of event.
Event Code 72764531 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72764531, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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