Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. Id of earthquake: nc75097856. Event ids that are associated: nc75097856. Exact location of earthquake, -124.49883270264° West, 40.301334381104° North, depth 8.710000038147 km. The temblor was detected at 17:07:43 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 17:07:43 / December 6, 2024 @ 5:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.710000038147 km (5 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 18 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.49883270264° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.301334381104° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.710000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 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 17:07:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 17:15:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	146	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 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	nc75097856	Id of event.
Event Code	75097856	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75097856,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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