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Minor earthquake: M2.98 quake has struck near Willits in CA


Earthquake location 39.445S, -123.1653333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Willits in CA on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73240106. Unique identifier: nc73240106. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 17:32:40 / July 27, 2019 @ 5:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -123.1653333° West, 39.445° North, depth 29.63 km. The temblor was reported at 09:32:40 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.63 km (18 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cloverdale, Clearlake, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 17 km ENE of Willits, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.1653333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ENE of Willits, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-27 17:32:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-01 16:56:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 137 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 305 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 nc73240106 Id of event.
Event Code 73240106 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73240106, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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