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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.4909S, -126.9764WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 230 km W of Ferndale, California (143 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 02:02:32 / October 27, 2018 @ 2:02 am. Exact location, longitude -126.9764° West, latitude 40.4909° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:02:32 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000hhuw. Event ids that are associated: us1000hhuw.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 230 km W of Ferndale, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.9764° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 230km W of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-27 02:02:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-27 02:32:05 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 reviewed 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 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267 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 us1000hhuw Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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