Minor earthquake: M2.95 quake has struck near Willows in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Willows in CA on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 21.60000038147 km, -122.03133392334° West, 39.539501190185° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 04:10:16 / May 11, 2025 @ 4:10 am. The temblor was detected at 04:10:16 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.60000038147 km (13 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75179661. Unique identifier: nc75179661.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Red Bluff, Plumas Lake, Olivehurst. Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Yuba City (c. 64 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Linda (c. 17 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Oroville (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 14 km E of Willows, CA.

CA Chico Linda Olivehurst Oroville Paradise Plumas Lake Red Bluff United States Willows Yuba City

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.03133392334° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.539501190185° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.60000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km E of Willows, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-11 04:10:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-11 04:11:58	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	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	134	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06866	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	nc75179661	Id of event.
Event Code	75179661	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75179661,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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