Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Redwood Valley in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Redwood Valley in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 12:30:50 / January 29, 2020 @ 12:30 pm. Exact location, longitude -123.2235031° West, latitude 39.2680016° North, depth = 5.96 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:30:50 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73333256. Unique identifier: nc73333256. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.96 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hidden Valley Lake (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Healdsburg, Hidden Valley Lake, Clearlake (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 2 km W of Redwood Valley, CA.

CA Clearlake Cloverdale Fort Bragg Healdsburg Hidden Valley Lake Redwood Valley Ukiah United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.2235031° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2680016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km W 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	2020-01-29 12:30:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-29 12:37:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.53	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	192	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04191	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	46	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	nc73333256	Id of event.
Event Code	73333256	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73333256,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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