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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Willits in CA


Earthquake location 39.3668327S, -123.257164WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Willits in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -123.257164 West, latitude 39.3668327 North, depth = 5.68 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.68 km (4 miles). The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:00:39 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73446401. Id of event: nc73446401. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 02:00:39 / August 19, 2020 @ 2:00 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km ESE of Willits, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.257164° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3668327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ESE of Willits, 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 02:00:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 02:05:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 122 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 nc73446401 Id of event.
Event Code 73446401 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73446401, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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