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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.3753333S, -126.8311667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) strikes 216 km W of Petrolia, CA (134 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 09:49:19 / July 26, 2018 @ 9:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.16 km (4 miles). The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:49:19 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -126.8311667° West, latitude 40.3753333° North, depth = 6.16 km. Id of earthquake: nc73056196. Event ids that are associated: nc73056196.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 216 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.8311667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3753333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km 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 2018-07-26 09:49:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 03:10:04 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 reviewed 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 138 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 321 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 nc73056196 Id of event.
Event Code 73056196 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73056196, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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