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Minor earthquake 3.04 mag, 18 km W of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.300498962402S, -124.49566650391WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Id of earthquake: nc75098086. Event ids that are associated: nc75098086. The temblor was detected at 22:08:03 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 22:08:03 / December 6, 2024 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.8099999427795 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.49566650391 West, latitude 40.300498962402 North, depth = 7.8099999427795 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka. Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days eighty-eight, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.49566650391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.300498962402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.8099999427795 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 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 2024-12-06 22:08:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 22:10:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 142 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc75098086 Id of event.
Event Code 75098086 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75098086, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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