Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Ferndale in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Ferndale in CA. The temblor was detected at 23:43:06 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -124.77616666667° West, latitude 40.495833333333° North, depth = 24.13 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.13 km (15 miles). Event id: nc75281096. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75281096. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 23:43:06 / December 16, 2025 @ 11:43 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km WSW of Ferndale, CA.

Arcata Bayside CA Eureka Ferndale Fortuna McKinleyville United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.77616666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.495833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km WSW of Ferndale, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-16 23:43:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-28 19:40:02	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	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3249	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	nc75281096	Id of event.
Event Code	75281096	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75281096,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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