Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 12:37:40 / March 9, 2025 @ 12:37 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.050000190735 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:37:40 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75145556. Event ids that are associated: nc75145556. Exact location, longitude -124.51716613769° West, latitude 40.293998718262° North, depth = 11.050000190735 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arcata, Bayside, Eureka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 46 km (28 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 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-five 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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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: 20 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Arcata Bayside CA Eureka Fortuna Petrolia United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.51716613769° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.293998718262° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.050000190735 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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	2025-03-09 12:37:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-09 12:39:17	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	128	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	0.1336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	269	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	nc75145556	Id of event.
Event Code	75145556	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75145556,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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