Minor earthquake, 3.77 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A 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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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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