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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near The Geysers in California

Posted by admin on March 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.7968333S, -122.7625WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California on Friday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:45:58 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 21:45:58 / March 18, 2016 @ 9:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 2.69 km, -122.7625° West, 38.7968333° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72608595, us20005aw6. Unique identifier: nc72608595. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.69 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 2 km N of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7968333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N 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 2016-03-18 21:45:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 23:05:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 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 130 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0202 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 31 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72608595 Id of event.
Event Code 72608595 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72608595,us20005aw6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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