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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on February 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.10950088501S, -124.53182983398WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The temblor was detected at 00:30:57 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.059999998658895 km (0 miles). Global time and date of event 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 00:30:57 / February 16, 2025 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc75134292. Event ids that are associated: nc75134292. Exact location, longitude -124.53182983398° West, latitude 40.10950088501° North, depth = 0.059999998658895 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km SW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.53182983398° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.10950088501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.059999998658895 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SW 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 2025-02-16 00:30:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-16 00:37:15 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 121 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 286 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 nc75134292 Id of event.
Event Code 75134292 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75134292, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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