Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 20:05:18 / December 6, 2024 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:05:18 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.48566436768 West, latitude 40.310333251953 North, depth = 9.8900003433228 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75097991, ew1733515520. Unique identifier: nc75097991. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.8900003433228 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km W of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.48566436768° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.310333251953° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.8900003433228 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 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 20:05:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 20:11:05	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	3.436	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	222	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,ew,	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	0.1116	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	264	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	nc75097991	Id of event.
Event Code	75097991	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75097991,ew1733515520,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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