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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag strikes near Hydesville in CA


Earthquake location 40.5569992S, -124.1295013WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Hydesville in CA. Id of earthquake: nc73330171. Event ids that are associated: nc73330171. The temblor was reported at 10:16:09 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 18:16:09 / January 21, 2020 @ 6:16 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.21 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -124.1295013° West, latitude 40.5569992° North, depth = 22.21 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 3 km WNW of Hydesville, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.1295013° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5569992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Hydesville, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-21 18:16:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 18:17:45 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 128 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 nc73330171 Id of event.
Event Code 73330171 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73330171, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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