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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Upper Lake in California

Posted by admin on May 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.3125S, -122.7978363WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Upper Lake in California on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.36 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:40:43 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72796526. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72796526. Global time and date of event 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 14:40:43 / May 1, 2017 @ 2:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -122.7978363° West, latitude 39.3125° North, depth = 7.36 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Healdsburg, Orland, Colusa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 NNE of Upper Lake, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7978363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of Upper Lake, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 14:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 14:49:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 138 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 nc72796526 Id of event.
Event Code 72796526 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72796526, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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