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Minor earthquake 3.31 mag, 18 km W of Petrolia, CA


Earthquake location 40.2988319S, -124.4919968WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Wednesday. The 3.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:05:58 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/19 / 2019-01-10 00:05:58 / January 10, 2019 @ 12:05 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73131416. Id of event: nc73131416. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.03 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -124.4919968 West, latitude 40.2988319 North, depth = 20.03 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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.

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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: 18 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.4919968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2988319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 2019-01-10 00:05:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-10 00:12:02 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 169 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 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 nc73131416 Id of event.
Event Code 73131416 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73131416, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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