A minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. Global time and date of event 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 17:41:18 / August 23, 2015 @ 5:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:41:18 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.7476654 West, latitude 38.7833328 North, depth = 4.01 km. Unique identifier: nc72511186. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72511186. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.01 km (2 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallejo, Suisun, Fairfield. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NE of The Geysers, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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