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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Petrolia in CA


Earthquake location 40.230167388916S, -124.7576675415WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Petrolia in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.4099998474121 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 00:13:15 / December 6, 2024 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:13:15 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -124.7576675415° West, latitude 40.230167388916° North, depth = 9.4099998474121 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75096791. Unique identifier: nc75096791.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km W of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.7576675415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.230167388916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.4099998474121 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km 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 2024-12-06 00:13:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 00:14:52 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 121 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3584 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 nc75096791 Id of event.
Event Code 75096791 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75096791, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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