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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 12 km W of Lake Pillsbury, CA


Earthquake location 39.3983345S, -123.1011658WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lake Pillsbury in CA on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.83 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 02:55:03 / August 19, 2020 @ 2:55 am. Event id: nc73446496. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73446496. Exact location of event, depth 18.83 km, -123.1011658° West, 39.3983345° North. The temblor was reported at 02:55:03 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cloverdale, Clearlake, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 12 km W of Lake Pillsbury, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.1011658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3983345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W 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 2020-08-19 02:55:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 03:00:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 121 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 nc73446496 Id of event.
Event Code 73446496 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73446496, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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