Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 81 km W of Petrolia, CA (50 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.9400000572205 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -125.23183441162 West, latitude 40.435165405273 North, depth = 1.9400000572205 km. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:22:00 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc75284631. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75284631. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/25 / 2025-12-22 08:22:00 / December 22, 2025 @ 8:22 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.23183441162° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.435165405273° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.9400000572205 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81 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	2025-12-22 08:22:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-22 08:23:30	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	131	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6984	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	266	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	nc75284631	Id of event.
Event Code	75284631	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75284631,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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