Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 66 km W of Petrolia, CA (41 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.14 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 00:58:44 / March 26, 2020 @ 12:58 am. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:58:44 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73359520. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73359520. Exact location of earthquake, -125.0648346° West, 40.3745003° North, depth 0.14 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.0648346° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3745003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km 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	2020-03-26 00:58:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-26 01:00:24	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	125	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5588	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	268	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	nc73359520	Id of event.
Event Code	73359520	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73359520,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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