Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Northern California

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes off the coast of Northern California (0 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: at00owp5rs. Ids that are associated to the event: at00owp5rs. Exact location of event, longitude -126.755 West, latitude 40.406 North, depth = 12 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/17 / 2017-09-22 19:50:16 / September 22, 2017 @ 7:50 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Northern California (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:50:16 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: off the coast of Northern California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-126.755° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.406° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	off the coast of Northern California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-22 19:50:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-22 19:53:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	1	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	518	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.843343	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.799981856	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00owp5rs	Id of event.
Event Code	00owp5rs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00owp5rs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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