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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.4109993S, -124.9281693WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.96 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: nc72996581. Event ids that are associated: nc72996581. Global time and date of event 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 13:50:14 / April 7, 2018 @ 1:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:50:14 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -124.9281693 West, latitude 40.4109993 North, depth = 0.96 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna. Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 55 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.9281693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4109993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2018-04-07 13:50:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-07 13:52:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 176 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4554 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 268 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 nc72996581 Id of event.
Event Code 72996581 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72996581, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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