A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 19:14:42 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 19:14:42 / December 5, 2024 @ 7:14 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.17000000178814 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.97116851807 West, latitude 40.351665496826 North, depth = 0.17000000178814 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75095981. Unique identifier: nc75095981.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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