Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Boonville in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Boonville in California on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72624590. Id of event: nc72624590. Exact location of event, depth 2.17 km, -123.433° West, 38.9821667° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/04/16 / 2016-04-19 18:34:38 / April 19, 2016 @ 6:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.17 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:34:38 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Clearlake (c. 15 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Healdsburg (c. 11 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Cloverdale (c. 8 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Windsor, Clearlake, Healdsburg (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW of Boonville, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.433° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9821667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km WSW of Boonville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-19 18:34:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-20 22:21:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1047	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	79	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mh	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72624590	Id of event.
Event Code	72624590	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72624590,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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