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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Redwood Valley in CA


Earthquake location 39.350666S, -123.2458344WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Redwood Valley in CA. Id of earthquake: nc73190656. Event ids that are associated: nc73190656. Global time and date of event 31/05/19 / 2019-05-31 19:23:55 / May 31, 2019 @ 7:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:23:55 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.07 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -123.2458344° West, 39.350666° North, depth 2.07 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.2458344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.350666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Redwood Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-31 19:23:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-31 19:25:30 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 121 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 19 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 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 nc73190656 Id of event.
Event Code 73190656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73190656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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