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Minor earthquake, 3.77 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.440166473389S, -124.32683563232WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.6599998474121 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: nc75096691. Event ids that are associated: nc75096691. The 3.77-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:17:43 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:17:43 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:17 pm. Exact location, longitude -124.32683563232° West, latitude 40.440166473389° North, depth = 4.6599998474121 km.

The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (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 fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.77 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.32683563232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.440166473389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.6599998474121 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km 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 23:17:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 23:23:38 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 3.211 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 219 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 nc75096691 Id of event.
Event Code 75096691 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096691, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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