A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 08:02:34 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc75097346. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75097346. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.079999923706 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -124.89649963379 West, latitude 40.37166595459 North, depth = 18.079999923706 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 08:02:34 / December 6, 2024 @ 8:02 am.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna. Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-nine, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 52 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.
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