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Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.378833770752S, -124.97133636475WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Petrolia in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75103856. Unique identifier: nc75103856. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:45:36 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 07:45:36 / December 16, 2024 @ 7:45 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.8700000047684 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -124.97133636475° West, latitude 40.378833770752° North, depth = 1.8700000047684 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.97133636475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.378833770752° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.8700000047684 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2024-12-16 07:45:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 07:47:50 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 150 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 263 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 nc75103856 Id of event.
Event Code 75103856 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75103856, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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