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Light earthquake 4.02 mag, 13 km W of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.3266678S, -124.4410019WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global time and date of event 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 20:20:20 / January 15, 2019 @ 8:20 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.54 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:20:20 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -124.4410019° West, 40.3266678° North, depth 7.54 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: nc73133256. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73133256, us2000j47p.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.4410019° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3266678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2019-01-15 20:20:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 20:34:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.26 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 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 252 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 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 nc73133256 Id of event.
Event Code 73133256 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73133256,us2000j47p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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