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Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 74 km WNW of Petrolia, CA

Posted by admin on December 15, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.387664794922S, -125.15950012207WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 74 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (46 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.17000000178814 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -125.15950012207 West, latitude 40.387664794922 North, depth = 0.17000000178814 km. The temblor was detected at 06:33:13 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75103341. Event ids that are associated: nc75103341. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/24 / 2024-12-15 06:33:13 / December 15, 2024 @ 6:33 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 74 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.15950012207° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.387664794922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.17000000178814 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 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 2024-12-15 06:33:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-15 06:35:16 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 135 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 286 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 nc75103341 Id of event.
Event Code 75103341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75103341, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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