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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on December 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.426666259766S, -124.84100341797WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. The temblor was reported at 11:41:38 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 11:41:38 / December 6, 2024 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc75097546. Event ids that are associated: nc75097546. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.229999542236 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -124.84100341797° West, 40.426666259766° North, depth 34.229999542236 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.84100341797° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.426666259766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.229999542236 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 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 11:41:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 11:43:01 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 131 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 287 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 nc75097546 Id of event.
Event Code 75097546 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097546, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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