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Minor earthquake: M3.54 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on December 5, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.386165618896S, -124.99383544922WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Thursday. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:16:21 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:16 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096681, ew1733440590, us7000nwcy. Unique identifier: nc75096681. The temblor was reported at 23:16:21 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.9500000476837 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.99383544922° West, 40.386165618896° North, depth 1.9500000476837 km.

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). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.99383544922° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.386165618896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.9500000476837 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 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 23:16:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 23:24:49 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 193 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 93 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 249 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 nc75096681 Id of event.
Event Code 75096681 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096681,ew1733440590,us7000nwcy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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