A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global time and date of event 19/03/19 / 2019-03-19 16:27:27 / March 19, 2019 @ 4:27 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73154246. Unique identifier: nc73154246. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.7935028 West, latitude 40.3839989 North, depth = 11.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:27:27 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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