Minor earthquake, 3.66 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73488761. Id of event: nc73488761. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/11/20 / 2020-11-29 15:46:52 / November 29, 2020 @ 3:46 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -124.4069977 West, latitude 40.2821655 North, depth = 19.49 km. The 3.66-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:46:52 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 19.49 km (12 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km WSW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.66 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.4069977° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2821655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WSW 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	2020-11-29 15:46:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-29 15:52:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.42	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	206	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	nc73488761	Id of event.
Event Code	73488761	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73488761,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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