Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Petrolia in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75104696. Unique identifier: nc75104696. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.46999999880791 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 03:52:44 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/12/24 / 2024-12-18 03:52:44 / December 18, 2024 @ 3:52 am. Exact location, longitude -124.61533355713° West, latitude 40.249000549316° North, depth = 0.46999999880791 km.

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.61533355713° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.249000549316° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.46999999880791 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 km W 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	2024-12-18 03:52:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-18 04:00:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.027	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	209	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2124	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75104696	Id of event.
Event Code	75104696	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75104696,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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