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Minor earthquake 3.23 mag, 63 km WNW of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.376499176025S, -125.0308303833WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75108841. Id of event: nc75108841. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.44999998807907 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -125.0308303833 West, latitude 40.376499176025 North, depth = 0.44999998807907 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/24 / 2024-12-28 10:31:20 / December 28, 2024 @ 10:31 am. The temblor was detected at 10:31:20 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 63 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0308303833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.376499176025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.44999998807907 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 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 2024-12-28 10:31:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-28 10:37:17 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 161 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 296 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 nc75108841 Id of event.
Event Code 75108841 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75108841, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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