Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Trinidad in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Trinidad in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.170000076294 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/25 / 2025-11-13 00:42:20 / November 13, 2025 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc75262611. Event ids that are associated: nc75262611, ew1762994550. Exact location of event, longitude -125.10500335693 West, latitude 40.995166778565 North, depth = 2.170000076294 km. The 3.42-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:42:20 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Eureka (c. 27 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Eureka.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-seven 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 81 km W of Trinidad, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.10500335693° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.995166778565° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.170000076294 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81 km W of Trinidad, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-13 00:42:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-13 00:44:44	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	180	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,ew,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8181	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	nc75262611	Id of event.
Event Code	75262611	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75262611,ew1762994550,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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