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Minor earthquake, 3.76 mag strikes near The Geysers in California


Earthquake location 38.8095016S, -122.788002WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/15 / 2015-07-10 03:29:49 / July 10, 2015 @ 3:29 am. The 3.76-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:29:49 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.51 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 3.51 km, -122.788002° West, 38.8095016° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72483061. Id of event: nc72483061.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vacaville, American Canyon, Colusa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NW of The Geysers, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.76 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.788002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8095016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of The Geysers, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-10 03:29:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-10 03:41:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 38 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.45 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 reviewed 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 233 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 0.005906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72483061 Id of event.
Event Code 72483061 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72483061, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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