Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 98 km W of Petrolia, CA (61 miles). Id of earthquake: nc73170430. Event ids that are associated: nc73170430, us70003ah7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.96 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 23:20:58 / April 22, 2019 @ 11:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.434166 West, latitude 40.4155006 North, depth = 4.96 km. The 3.43-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:20:58 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.434166° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4155006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	98km 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	2019-04-22 23:20:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-22 23:29:31	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	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	181	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8438	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	251	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	nc73170430	Id of event.
Event Code	73170430	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73170430,us70003ah7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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