Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Event id: nc75098671. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75098671. Exact location, longitude -124.77866363525° West, latitude 40.363334655762° North, depth = 7.9000000953674 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:08:52 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.9000000953674 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 11:08:52 / December 7, 2024 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Eureka Fortuna Petrolia United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.77866363525° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.363334655762° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.9000000953674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 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	2024-12-07 11:08:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-07 11:10:31	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	122	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3417	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	254	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	nc75098671	Id of event.
Event Code	75098671	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75098671,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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