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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on December 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.341667175293S, -124.84533691406WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Tuesday. Event id: nc75104341. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75104341. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:54:21 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.979999542236 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.84533691406° West, 40.341667175293° North, depth 12.979999542236 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 04:54:21 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:54 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.84533691406° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.341667175293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.979999542236 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 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 2024-12-17 04:54:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 04:56:00 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 128 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 272 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 nc75104341 Id of event.
Event Code 75104341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75104341, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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