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Minor earthquake 3.45 mag, 100 km W of Ferndale, CA


Earthquake location 40.5550003S, -125.4430008WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was reported 100 km W of Ferndale, CA (62 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 08:07:34 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -125.4430008 West, latitude 40.5550003 North, depth = 2.12 km. Id of earthquake: nc73096431. Event ids that are associated: nc73096431. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.12 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/18 / 2018-10-12 16:07:34 / October 12, 2018 @ 4:07 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 100 km W of Ferndale, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.4430008° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5550003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km W of Ferndale, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-12 16:07:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-12 16:13:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 285 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 nc73096431 Id of event.
Event Code 73096431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73096431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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