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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.38399887085S, -124.85182952881WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.530000686646 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75118826. Unique identifier: nc75118826. Exact location of event, longitude -124.85182952881 West, latitude 40.38399887085 North, depth = 18.530000686646 km. The temblor was detected at 00:38:51 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 00:38:51 / January 18, 2025 @ 12:38 am.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 48 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.85182952881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.38399887085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.530000686646 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 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 2025-01-18 00:38:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-18 00:40:17 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 136 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc75118826 Id of event.
Event Code 75118826 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75118826, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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