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Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 11 km NNE of Petrolia, CA

Posted by admin on September 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4193344S, -124.232666WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:32:41 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -124.232666 West, latitude 40.4193344 North, depth = 26.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.54 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 06:32:41 / September 15, 2019 @ 6:32 am. Id of earthquake: nc73273870. Event ids that are associated: nc73273870.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km NNE of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.232666° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4193344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE 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 2019-09-15 06:32:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-15 06:34:20 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 127 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73273870 Id of event.
Event Code 73273870 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73273870, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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