A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Ferndale in CA. The temblor was picked up at 12:58:10 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73095941. Unique identifier: nc73095941. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.23 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.8386688° West, 40.6775017° North, depth 0.23 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 20:58:10 / October 10, 2018 @ 8:58 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Bayside, Arcata. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km WNW of Ferndale, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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