Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 162 km WNW of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.378666666667S, -126.2005WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 162 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (101 miles) on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/24 / 2024-08-30 21:47:03 / August 30, 2024 @ 9:47 pm. Event id: nc75055426. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75055426. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:47:03 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -126.2005 West, latitude 40.378666666667 North, depth = 10 km.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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. 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: 162 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.2005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.378666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162 km WNW 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 2024-08-30 21:47:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-05 18:41:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 126 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284 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 nc75055426 Id of event.
Event Code 75055426 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75055426, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply