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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag has occurred near Bayview in CA


Earthquake location 40.9813333S, -124.989WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Bayview in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.35 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:06:54 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73256750. Unique identifier: nc73256750. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.989 West, latitude 40.9813333 North, depth = 24.35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 06:06:54 / August 23, 2019 @ 6:06 am.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km WNW of Bayview, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9813333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km WNW of Bayview, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-23 06:06:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-27 23:16:46 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 124 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6417 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 nc73256750 Id of event.
Event Code 73256750 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73256750, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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