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Light earthquake: M4.15 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.3746681S, -124.9926682WA light earthquake magnitude 4.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The 4.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:35:48 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -124.9926682° West, latitude 40.3746681° North, depth = -0.15 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.15 km (-0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/19 / 2019-01-13 09:35:48 / January 13, 2019 @ 9:35 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73132506. Unique identifier: nc73132506.

The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km W of Petrolia, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.9926682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3746681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-01-13 09:35:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 09:43:53 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 1.73 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 265 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5102 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 240 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73132506 Id of event.
Event Code 73132506 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73132506, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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