Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 136 km W of Petrolia, CA (85 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 12:54:10 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.2 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nc73118336. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73118336. Global time and date of event 02/12/18 / 2018-12-02 20:54:10 / December 2, 2018 @ 8:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 16.2 km, -125.8796667° West, 40.4326667° North.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 136 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.8796667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4326667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	136km 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	2018-12-02 20:54:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-04 02:22:03	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	128	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.178	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	290	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	nc73118336	Id of event.
Event Code	73118336	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73118336,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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