Minor earthquake: M3.61 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:04:31 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:04:31 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:04 pm. Exact location of event, depth 16.959999084473 km, -124.79949951172° West, 40.323001861572° North. Unique identifier: nc75096636. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75096636. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.959999084473 km (11 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayside, Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km W of Petrolia, CA.

Bayside CA Eureka Fortuna Petrolia United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.61 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.79949951172° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.323001861572° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.959999084473 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km W 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 23:04:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 23:23:18	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	1.567	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	reviewed	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	200	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3511	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	312	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75096636	Id of event.
Event Code	75096636	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75096636,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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