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Minor earthquake: M3.47 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

Posted by admin on October 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3036652S, -124.6096649WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.53 km (11 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:10:03 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73287665. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73287665, us70005rg3. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/19 / 2019-10-07 00:10:03 / October 7, 2019 @ 12:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.6096649 West, latitude 40.3036652 North, depth = 17.53 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was McKinleyville, Arcata, Bayside (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arcata (c. 17 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayside (c. 17 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from McKinleyville (c. 15 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 28 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.6096649° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3036652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2019-10-07 00:10:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-07 00:17:02 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 1.25 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 185 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 nc73287665 Id of event.
Event Code 73287665 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73287665,us70005rg3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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