A 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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