Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -124.7440032959 West, latitude 40.341667175293 North, depth = 17.340000152588 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ew1733469220, nc75097281. Unique identifier: nc75097281. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.340000152588 km (11 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 07:13:39 / December 6, 2024 @ 7:13 am. The temblor was detected at 07:13:39 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.7440032959° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.341667175293° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.340000152588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 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	2024-12-06 07:13:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 07:20:04	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	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	169	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	,ew,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3115	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	233	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	nc75097281	Id of event.
Event Code	75097281	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1733469220,nc75097281,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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