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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 64 km W of Petrolia, CA

Posted by admin on September 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3995018S, -125.0394974WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 01:14:05 / September 18, 2018 @ 1:14 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73086796. Id of event: nc73086796. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.02 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 0.02 km, -125.0394974° West, 40.3995018° North. The temblor was reported at 17:14:05 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 64 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0394974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3995018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2018-09-18 01:14:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 01:28:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1 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 189 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 nc73086796 Id of event.
Event Code 73086796 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73086796, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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