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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.358165740967S, -124.88600158691WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 12:03:47 / December 6, 2024 @ 12:03 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.640000343323 km (7 miles). Unique identifier: nc75097566. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75097566. Exact location of event, longitude -124.88600158691 West, latitude 40.358165740967 North, depth = 10.640000343323 km. The temblor was detected at 12:03:47 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.88600158691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.358165740967° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.640000343323 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 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 12:03:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 12:05:32 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 121 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 nc75097566 Id of event.
Event Code 75097566 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097566, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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