Minor earthquake: M2.79 quake strikes near Yountville in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.79 (mg/mb) has striked on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Yountville in California. The temblor was reported at 06:17:34 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 7.96 km (5 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-01 02:17:34 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -122.3951645 West, latitude 38.359333 North, depth 7.96 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Ramon, Blackhawk, San Leandro.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.79 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.3951645° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.359333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SSW of Yountville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-01 02:17:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-01 02:19:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	120	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05167	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	58	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	nc72389786	Id of event.
Event Code	72389786	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	nc72389786	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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janet

yess felt it and it had a loud shaking, banging of the windows in the house.

February 1, 2015

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