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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on December 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.335834503174S, -124.87232971191WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.1800003051758 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.87232971191 West, latitude 40.335834503174 North, depth = 8.1800003051758 km. Event id: nc75097411. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75097411. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 09:04:16 / December 6, 2024 @ 9:04 am. The temblor was detected at 09:04:16 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter).

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

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 50 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.87232971191° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.335834503174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1800003051758 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 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 09:04:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 09:05:42 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 124 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 292 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 nc75097411 Id of event.
Event Code 75097411 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75097411, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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