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Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.451499938965S, -125.0488357544WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:44:48 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:44 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:44:48 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096746. Unique identifier: nc75096746. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.0488357544 West, latitude 40.451499938965 North, depth = 0.30000001192093 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.30000001192093 km (0 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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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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: 66 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0488357544° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.451499938965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.30000001192093 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 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 2024-12-05 23:44:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-05 23:52:16 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 162 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 275 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 nc75096746 Id of event.
Event Code 75096746 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096746, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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