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Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on January 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.327331542969S, -124.97799682617WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. Unique identifier: nc75112576. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75112576. Exact location, longitude -124.97799682617° West, latitude 40.327331542969° North, depth = 6.0700001716614 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 20:26:05 / January 3, 2025 @ 8:26 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.0700001716614 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:26:05 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.97799682617° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.327331542969° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.0700001716614 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 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 2025-01-03 20:26:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-03 20:27:44 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 126 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5024 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 265 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 nc75112576 Id of event.
Event Code 75112576 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75112576, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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