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Minor earthquake 3.42 mag, 19 km W of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.307998657227S, -124.51100158691WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Id of earthquake: nc75096481. Event ids that are associated: nc75096481. The temblor was picked up at 22:04:24 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 22:04:24 / December 5, 2024 @ 10:04 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.300000190735 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.51100158691° West, 40.307998657227° North, depth 10.300000190735 km.

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.51100158691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.307998657227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.300000190735 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km W 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 22:04:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 22:06:27 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 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 180 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 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 nc75096481 Id of event.
Event Code 75096481 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096481, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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