Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 71 km WNW of Petrolia, CA (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -125.12283325195° West, 40.370834350586° North, depth 6.0100002288818 km. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:33:50 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75113251. Event ids that are associated: nc75113251. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.0100002288818 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/01/25 / 2025-01-05 20:33:50 / January 5, 2025 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.12283325195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.370834350586° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.0100002288818 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 km 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	2025-01-05 20:33:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-05 20:35:10	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	128	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	271	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	nc75113251	Id of event.
Event Code	75113251	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75113251,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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