Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 93 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (58 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -125.37783333333 West, latitude 40.419333333333 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: nc75081391. Event ids that are associated: nc75081391. Global time and date of event 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 17:12:19 / October 31, 2024 @ 5:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:12:19 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 93 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.37783333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.419333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93 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	2024-10-31 17:12:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-12 03:49:44	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	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	76	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7959	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	257	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	nc75081391	Id of event.
Event Code	75081391	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75081391,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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