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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 147 km W of Ferndale, California


Earthquake location 40.4545S, -126.0001WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 147 km W of Ferndale, California (91 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/20 / 2020-10-17 07:30:26 / October 17, 2020 @ 7:30 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c8xv. Unique identifier: us6000c8xv. Exact location, longitude -126.0001° West, latitude 40.4545° North, depth = 10 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:30:26 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 147 km W of Ferndale, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.0001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147 km W of Ferndale, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-17 07:30:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-17 07:40:08 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 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 us6000c8xv Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8xv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c8xv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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