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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 32 km W of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.257167816162S, -124.6558303833WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/24 / 2024-12-22 22:51:59 / December 22, 2024 @ 10:51 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.6558303833 West, latitude 40.257167816162 North, depth = 16.139999389648 km. Event id: nc75106806. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75106806. The temblor was picked up at 22:51:59 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.139999389648 km (10 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna. Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.6558303833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.257167816162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.139999389648 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 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 2024-12-22 22:51:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-22 22:54:02 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 138 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 275 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 nc75106806 Id of event.
Event Code 75106806 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75106806, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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