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Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Lake Pillsbury in CA


Earthquake location 39.5463333S, -122.9676666WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Lake Pillsbury in CA on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.81 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73312716. Unique identifier: nc73312716. Exact location, longitude -122.9676666° West, latitude 39.5463333° North, depth = 2.81 km. Global time and date of event 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 19:03:51 / December 8, 2019 @ 7:03 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:03:51 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Bragg, Clearlake, Orland. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Orland (c. 7 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Willows (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.9676666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5463333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N of Lake Pillsbury, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-08 19:03:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-08 19:07:25 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 139 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 nc73312716 Id of event.
Event Code 73312716 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73312716, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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