Minor earthquake: M3.34 quake has struck near The Geysers in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in California on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 16:03:31 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72643806. Unique identifier: nc72643806. Exact location, longitude -122.8188324° West, latitude 38.8081665° North, depth = 1.47 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 23:03:31 / May 31, 2016 @ 11:03 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Novato, Winters, Napa.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km WNW of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.34 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8188324° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8081665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km WNW 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	2016-05-31 23:03:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-31 23:08:57	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	2.7	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	172	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.008113	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	32	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	nc72643806	Id of event.
Event Code	72643806	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72643806,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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