Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Willits in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Willits in CA on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75174816. Unique identifier: nc75174816. Exact location of event, depth 0.9200000166893 km, -123.3621673584° West, 39.414001464844° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.9200000166893 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/25 / 2025-05-01 21:22:25 / May 1, 2025 @ 9:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 21:22:25 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter).

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 Cloverdale, Fort Bragg, Ukiah. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Fort Bragg (c. 7 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NW of Willits, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Cloverdale Fort Bragg Ukiah United States Willits

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.3621673584° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.414001464844° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.9200000166893 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km NW 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	2025-05-01 21:22:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-01 21:25:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	130	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05816	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75174816	Id of event.
Event Code	75174816	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75174816,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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