Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 23:56:55 / February 15, 2025 @ 11:56 pm. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:56:55 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.63666534424 West, latitude 40.23099899292 North, depth = 12.180000305176 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.180000305176 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: nc75134282. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75134282.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Eureka Fortuna Petrolia United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.63666534424° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.23099899292° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.180000305176 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km W 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	2025-02-15 23:56:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-15 23:58:25	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	131	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2322	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	292	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	nc75134282	Id of event.
Event Code	75134282	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75134282,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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