Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) strikes 77 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (48 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 12:26:08 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 12:26:08 / March 12, 2025 @ 12:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.6999998092651 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75147571. Unique identifier: nc75147571. Exact location of event, longitude -125.18766784668 West, latitude 40.395832061768 North, depth = 4.6999998092651 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.18766784668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.395832061768° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.6999998092651 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 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	2025-03-12 12:26:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 12:28:12	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	155	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6548	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	282	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75147571	Id of event.
Event Code	75147571	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75147571,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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