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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.354167938232S, -124.8998336792WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.8998336792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.354167938232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.87000000476837 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 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 2025-02-24 12:02:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-24 20:13:59 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 122 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 280 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 nc75138647 Id of event.
Event Code 75138647 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75138647, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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