A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 19:21:17 / December 5, 2024 @ 7:21 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096026. Unique identifier: nc75096026. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.550000190735 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:21:17 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.550000190735 km, -124.53033447266° West, 40.314666748047° North.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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