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Minor earthquake, 3.89 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on April 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3481674S, -125.0036697WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.67 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.67 km, -125.0036697° West, 40.3481674° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 14:06:48 / April 12, 2019 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:06:48 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73164650. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73164650.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0036697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3481674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2019-04-12 14:06:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 14:11:27 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 1.982 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 233 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267 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 nc73164650 Id of event.
Event Code 73164650 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73164650, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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