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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.415000915527S, -125.15833282471WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (47 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.88999998569489 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -125.15833282471 West, latitude 40.415000915527 North, depth = 0.88999998569489 km. Event id: nc75101036. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75101036. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 14:14:51 / December 10, 2024 @ 2:14 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:14:51 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.15833282471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.415000915527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.88999998569489 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 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 2024-12-10 14:14:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-10 14:16:19 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 129 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 282 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 nc75101036 Id of event.
Event Code 75101036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75101036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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