A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -124.8998336792 West, latitude 40.354167938232 North, depth = 0.87000000476837 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75138647. Unique identifier: nc75138647. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.87000000476837 km (1 miles). The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:02:34 / 12:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 12:02:34 / February 24, 2025 @ 12:02 pm.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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