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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.364666S, -125.0234985WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Monday. The temblor was reported at 05:32:36 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -125.0234985 West, latitude 40.364666 North, depth = 0.57 km. Event id: nc73497495. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73497495. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/20 / 2020-12-14 05:32:36 / December 14, 2020 @ 5:32 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.57 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 63 km W of Petrolia, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.0234985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.364666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km 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 2020-12-14 05:32:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-14 05:38:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 153 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 278 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 nc73497495 Id of event.
Event Code 73497495 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73497495, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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