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Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 20 km NNE of Rockport, CA


Earthquake location 39.9150009S, -123.7573318WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Rockport in CA on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 20:40:57 / October 6, 2020 @ 8:40 pm. Event id: nc73467496. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73467496. Exact location of event, longitude -123.7573318 West, latitude 39.9150009 North, depth = -0.93 km. The temblor was reported at 20:40:57 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.93 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (33 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Bragg.

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 20 km NNE of Rockport, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.7573318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9150009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NNE of Rockport, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-06 20:40:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-06 20:43:49 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 135 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 nc73467496 Id of event.
Event Code 73467496 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73467496, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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