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Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on February 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4501648S, -124.9106674WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 20:54:45 / February 24, 2019 @ 8:54 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:54:45 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.26 km (-0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73145311. Unique identifier: nc73145311. Exact location of event, depth -0.26 km, -124.9106674° West, 40.4501648° North.

The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 55 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.9106674° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4501648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km WNW 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 2019-02-24 20:54:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-24 21:04:09 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 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 153 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291 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 nc73145311 Id of event.
Event Code 73145311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73145311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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