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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Shingletown in CA

Posted by admin on May 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.6165009S, -121.8131638WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Shingletown in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.91 km (10 miles). Global time and date of event 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 18:08:47 / May 16, 2018 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.04-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:08:47 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73016820. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73016820. Exact location, longitude -121.8131638° West, latitude 40.6165009° North, depth = 15.91 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Red Bluff, Redding, Shasta Lake. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Shasta Lake (c. 10 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Anderson (c. 9 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 15 km NNE of Shingletown, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.8131638° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6165009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNE of Shingletown, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-16 18:08:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 18:20:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 143 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 nc73016820 Id of event.
Event Code 73016820 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73016820, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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