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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on February 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.400001525879S, -125.01233673096WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -125.01233673096 West, latitude 40.400001525879 North, depth = 0.070000000298023 km. The temblor was reported at 00:37:53 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 00:37:53 / February 22, 2025 @ 12:37 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.070000000298023 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc75136931. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75136931.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fortuna. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 62 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.01233673096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.400001525879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.070000000298023 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 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 2025-02-22 00:37:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-22 00:39:24 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5284 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273 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 nc75136931 Id of event.
Event Code 75136931 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75136931, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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