A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Petrolia in CA. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75097781, ew1733500230. Id of event: nc75097781. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.079999998211861 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 15:50:23 / December 6, 2024 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.95133209228 West, latitude 40.341667175293 North, depth = -0.079999998211861 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:50:23 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-eight, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.
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