A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from The Geysers in California. Unique identifier: nc72490366. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72490366. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 17:33:26 / July 20, 2015 @ 5:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.68 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -122.7955017° West, 38.8188324° North, depth 3.68 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:33:26 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 5 km NW of The Geysers, California.
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