A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact location of event, longitude -122.8143311 West, latitude 38.8064995 North, depth = 0.22 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 12:46:05 / September 15, 2015 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.22 km (0 miles). Unique identifier: nc72525476. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72525476. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:05 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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 WNW of The Geysers, California.
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