A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7716675 West, latitude 38.7895012 North, depth = 1.87 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.87 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:54:47 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc72571871. Event ids that are associated: nc72571871. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 05:54:47 / December 25, 2015 @ 5:54 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 1 km NW of The Geysers, California.
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