A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Unique identifier: nc75098236. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75098236. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.89999961853 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 00:57:40 / December 7, 2024 @ 12:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -124.58266448975° West, latitude 40.318332672119° North, depth = 11.89999961853 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:57:40 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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: 25 km W of Petrolia, CA.
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