Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Unique identifier: nc73116511. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73116511. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/18 / 2018-11-27 22:43:41 / November 27, 2018 @ 10:43 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:43:41 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.5690002 West, latitude 40.2963333 North, depth = 18.3 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.3 km (11 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km W of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.5690002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2963333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km 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	2018-11-27 22:43:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-27 22:48:02	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	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	129	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2352	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	266	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	nc73116511	Id of event.
Event Code	73116511	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73116511,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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