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Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.323833465576S, -125.00866699219WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 12:42:33 / December 14, 2024 @ 12:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.029999999329448 km (-0 miles). Unique identifier: nc75103096. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75103096, ew1734180170. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:42:33 / 12:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -125.00866699219 West, latitude 40.323833465576 North, depth = -0.029999999329448 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.00866699219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.323833465576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.029999999329448 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 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 2024-12-14 12:42:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-14 12:51:36 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 reviewed 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 197 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,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 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 nc75103096 Id of event.
Event Code 75103096 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75103096,ew1734180170, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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