Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Manton in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Manton in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.1300001144409 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:10:58 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/10/25 / 2025-10-03 21:10:58 / October 3, 2025 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc75244451. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75244451. Exact location, longitude -121.96966552734° West, latitude 40.39400100708° North, depth = 5.1300001144409 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Redding (c. 89 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chico (c. 86 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Paradise (c. 26 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Red Bluff (c. 14 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Magalia (c. 11 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paradise, Chico, Orland.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km WSW of Manton, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Chico Magalia Manton Orland Paradise Red Bluff Redding United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.96966552734° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.39400100708° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.1300001144409 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km WSW of Manton, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-03 21:10:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-03 21:13:47	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	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	125	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1448	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	nc75244451	Id of event.
Event Code	75244451	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75244451,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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