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Minor earthquake, 3.66 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.35916519165S, -124.97533416748WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.4900000095367 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -124.97533416748° West, 40.35916519165° North, depth 1.4900000095367 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 21:08:34 / December 5, 2024 @ 9:08 pm. Id of earthquake: nc75096341. Event ids that are associated: nc75096341, ew1733432930. The temblor was reported at 21:08:34 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.66 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.97533416748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.35916519165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.4900000095367 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 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 21:08:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 21:11:35 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 206 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,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 nc75096341 Id of event.
Event Code 75096341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096341,ew1733432930, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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