A minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 19:38:07 / December 5, 2024 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.799999237061 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.49050140381 West, latitude 40.351165771484 North, depth = 19.799999237061 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75096066. Id of event: nc75096066. The temblor was reported at 19:38:07 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 18 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.
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