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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.341667175293S, -124.95133209228WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.95133209228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.341667175293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.079999998211861 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 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 2024-12-06 15:50:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 15:58:45 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 259 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 84 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc75097781 Id of event.
Event Code 75097781 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097781,ew1733500230, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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