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Minor earthquake, 3.54 mag has occurred near Willits in CA


Earthquake location 39.368S, -123.2450027WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Willits in CA. The temblor was picked up at 17:41:19 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73477526. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73477526. Exact location of event, depth 5.9 km, -123.2450027° West, 39.368° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/20 / 2020-11-03 17:41:19 / November 3, 2020 @ 5:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.9 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clearlake, Cloverdale, Fort Bragg. The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

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

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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: 11 km ESE of Willits, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.2450027° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.368° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2020-11-03 17:41:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-03 17:48:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.21 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 193 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 nc73477526 Id of event.
Event Code 73477526 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73477526, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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