Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fort Bidwell in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 47 km E of Fort Bidwell, California (29 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.9 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:52:43 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.5861 West, latitude 41.9252 North, depth = 2.9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 09:52:43 / January 29, 2025 @ 9:52 am. Id of earthquake: nn00892685. Event ids that are associated: us7000p9td, nn00892685.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km E of Fort Bidwell, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.5861° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km E of Fort Bidwell, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-29 09:52:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-29 17:07:43	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.534	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.0764 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120.97	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	nn00892685	Id of event.
Event Code	00892685	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p9td,nn00892685,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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