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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Ferndale in California


Earthquake location 40.7755S, -127.2734WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 255 km W of Ferndale, California (158 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:34:05 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.85 km, -127.2734° West, 40.7755° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 07:34:05 / May 19, 2020 @ 7:34 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.85 km (7 miles). Event id: us70009kj2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009kj2.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 255 km W of Ferndale, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -127.2734° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 255 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 2020-05-19 07:34:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-16 09:56:47 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 138 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 2.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us70009kj2 Id of event.
Event Code 70009kj2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009kj2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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