Minor earthquake: M3.23 quake has struck near Inverness in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Inverness in California. Exact location, longitude -123.0913315° West, latitude 37.9248352° North, depth = -0.04 km. The temblor was detected at 15:50:46 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc72626350. Event ids that are associated: nc72626350. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.04 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 22:50:46 / April 22, 2016 @ 10:50 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Berkeley (c. 112 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orinda, Healdsburg, San Mateo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.23 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.0913315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9248352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SW of Inverness, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-22 22:50:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-22 23:17:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	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	automatic	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	161	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09128	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	nc72626350	Id of event.
Event Code	72626350	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72626350,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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