Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 102 km W of Petrolia, CA (63 miles). Global time and date of event 08/10/18 / 2018-10-08 10:35:11 / October 8, 2018 @ 10:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -125.4783333 West, latitude 40.417 North, depth = 13.37 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.37 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73095046. Unique identifier: nc73095046. The temblor was reported at 02:35:11 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 102 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.4783333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.417° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102km 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	2018-10-08 10:35:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-10 02:18:02	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		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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8726	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	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	nc73095046	Id of event.
Event Code	73095046	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73095046,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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