Minor earthquake: M3.32 quake has struck near Gerber in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Gerber in CA on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -122.0638351° West, 40.1004982° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72938316. Id of event: nc72938316. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:43:07 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 06:43:07 / December 11, 2017 @ 6:43 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was South Oroville, Oroville, Thermalito. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km NE of Gerber, CA.

CA Chico Gerber Oroville Paradise Red Bluff Redding South Oroville Thermalito United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.0638351° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1004982° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NE of Gerber, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-11 06:43:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-11 06:52:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	37	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	183	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	nc72938316	Id of event.
Event Code	72938316	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72938316,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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