Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.4900000095367 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.54633331299 West, latitude 40.260833740234 North, depth = 3.4900000095367 km. Event id: nc75096371. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75096371. The temblor was picked up at 20:21:09 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 20:21:09 / December 5, 2024 @ 8:21 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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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. 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: 23 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.54633331299° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.260833740234° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.4900000095367 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 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 20:21:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 21:20:21	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	133	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2492	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	318	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	nc75096371	Id of event.
Event Code	75096371	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75096371,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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