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Minor earthquake 3.86 mag, 62 km WNW of Petrolia, CA

Posted by admin on December 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.357833862305S, -125.0120010376WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 03:32:10 / December 6, 2024 @ 3:32 am. The temblor was reported at 03:32:10 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc75097086. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75097086, ew1733455940. Exact location of event, depth 0.21999999880791 km, -125.0120010376° West, 40.357833862305° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.21999999880791 km (0 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 62 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0120010376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.357833862305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.21999999880791 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 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 03:32:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 03:36:51 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 229 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 147 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 nc75097086 Id of event.
Event Code 75097086 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097086,ew1733455940, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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