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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.3839989S, -124.7935028WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Global time and date of event 19/03/19 / 2019-03-19 16:27:27 / March 19, 2019 @ 4:27 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73154246. Unique identifier: nc73154246. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.7935028 West, latitude 40.3839989 North, depth = 11.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:27:27 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka, Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km W of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.7935028° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3839989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2019-03-19 16:27:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-19 16:30:51 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 129 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 261 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73154246 Id of event.
Event Code 73154246 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73154246, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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