Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096901. Unique identifier: nc75096901. Exact location of event, longitude -124.6943359375 West, latitude 40.372501373291 North, depth = 0.46999999880791 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:20:58 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 01:20:58 / December 6, 2024 @ 1:20 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.46999999880791 km (0 miles).

Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka. Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.01 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.6943359375° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.372501373291° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.46999999880791 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 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 01:20:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 01:23:01	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	139	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2817	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	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	nc75096901	Id of event.
Event Code	75096901	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75096901,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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