A light earthquake magnitude 4.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Petrolia in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -124.91249847412 West, latitude 40.348499298096 North, depth = 2.3399999141693 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096436. Unique identifier: nc75096436. The temblor was picked up at 21:47:11 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 21:47:11 / December 5, 2024 @ 9:47 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.3399999141693 km (1 miles).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka. Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 53 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.
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