Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Petrolia in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -124.409668° West, 40.3463326° North, depth 16.87 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/19 / 2019-03-23 18:20:08 / March 23, 2019 @ 6:20 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:20:08 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73155340. Id of event: nc73155340. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.87 km (10 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 11 km WNW of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.409668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3463326° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WNW 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	2019-03-23 18:20:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-23 18:22:55	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	3.56	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	192	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0773	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	245	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	nc73155340	Id of event.
Event Code	73155340	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73155340,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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