Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Fort Bidwell in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km ENE of Fort Bidwell, California (27 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 17:31:34 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.747 km (9 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 17:31:34 / July 18, 2025 @ 5:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.642 West, latitude 41.9519 North, depth = 13.747 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qdi1. Id of event: us7000qdi1.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km ENE of Fort Bidwell, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.642° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9519° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.747 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km ENE 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	2025-07-18 17:31:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-18 19:43:55	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	129	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.29	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qdi1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qdi1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qdi1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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