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Minor earthquake: M3.47 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.419666290283S, -125.02183532715WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The temblor was detected at 00:31:17 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75098201. Id of event: nc75098201. Exact location of event, longitude -125.02183532715 West, latitude 40.419666290283 North, depth = 0 km. Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 00:31:17 / December 7, 2024 @ 12:31 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.02183532715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.419666290283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 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 00:31:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-07 00:34:14 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 185 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 nc75098201 Id of event.
Event Code 75098201 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75098201, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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