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Moderate earthquake, 5.06 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.3460007S, -125.0751648WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.4 km (3 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.0751648 West, latitude 40.3460007 North, depth = 4.4 km. Global time and date of event 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 17:24:48 / January 25, 2018 @ 5:24 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72958431. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72958431. The temblor was reported at 09:24:48 / 9:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 67 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0751648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3460007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W of Petrolia, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-25 17:24:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 17:34:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 1.71 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 394 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72958431 Id of event.
Event Code 72958431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72958431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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