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Minor earthquake 2.81 mag, 48 km W of Ferndale, CA

Posted by admin on December 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.498666666667S, -124.82366666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ferndale in CA. Exact location of event, depth 23.27 km, -124.82366666667° West, 40.498666666667° North. Global time and date of event 17/12/25 / 2025-12-17 11:35:37 / December 17, 2025 @ 11:35 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:35:37 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75281446, us6000rvg1. Unique identifier: nc75281446. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.27 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka. Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km W of Ferndale, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.82366666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.498666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km W 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 2025-12-17 11:35:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-29 11:47:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 122 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 nc75281446 Id of event.
Event Code 75281446 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75281446,us6000rvg1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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