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Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 66 km WNW of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.324333190918S, -125.05966949463WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.10999999940395 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 20:53:55 / December 5, 2024 @ 8:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:53:55 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc75096391. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75096391. Exact location of event, longitude -125.05966949463 West, latitude 40.324333190918 North, depth = 0.10999999940395 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 66 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.05966949463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.324333190918° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.10999999940395 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 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 2024-12-05 20:53:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 21:22:14 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 0 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 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 172 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298 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 nc75096391 Id of event.
Event Code 75096391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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