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Minor earthquake 3.33 mag, 14 km NNE of Fort Bragg, CA


Earthquake location 39.5615005S, -123.7539978WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Fort Bragg in CA on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/19 / 2019-05-05 06:47:34 / May 5, 2019 @ 6:47 am. Event id: nc73177305. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73177305. Exact location of event, depth 0.45 km, -123.7539978° West, 39.5615005° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.45 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:47:34 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ukiah, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km NNE of Fort Bragg, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.7539978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5615005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNE of Fort Bragg, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-05 06:47:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-05 06:56:03 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 4.37 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 171 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 nc73177305 Id of event.
Event Code 73177305 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73177305, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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