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Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 17 km WSW of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.239665985107S, -124.44999694824WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 00:00:15 / January 18, 2025 @ 12:00 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:00:15 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75118801. Event ids that are associated: nc75118801. Exact location of event, longitude -124.44999694824 West, latitude 40.239665985107 North, depth = 18.709999084473 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.709999084473 km (12 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km WSW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.44999694824° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.239665985107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.709999084473 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km WSW 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 2025-01-18 00:00:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-18 00:07:16 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 133 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09554 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284 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 nc75118801 Id of event.
Event Code 75118801 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75118801, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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