Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 235 km W of Petrolia, CA (146 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -127.0461667 West, latitude 40.1296667 North, depth = 9.95 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 03:31:34 / August 23, 2019 @ 3:31 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc73256630. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73256630. The temblor was picked up at 19:31:34 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.95 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 235 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.59 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.0461667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1296667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	235km 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	2019-08-23 03:31:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-28 21:27:46	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	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	198	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.076	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	347	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	nc73256630	Id of event.
Event Code	73256630	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73256630,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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