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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.240165710449S, -124.43383026123WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 22:27:11 / December 5, 2024 @ 10:27 pm. Exact location of event, depth 13.119999885559 km, -124.43383026123° West, 40.240165710449° North. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:27:11 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75096541. Event ids that are associated: nc75096541. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.119999885559 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km WSW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.43383026123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.240165710449° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.119999885559 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km WSW 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 22:27:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 22:29:32 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 134 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 0.08485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 286 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 nc75096541 Id of event.
Event Code 75096541 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096541, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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