A minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cobb in California on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 13:37:20 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 20:37:20 / June 21, 2016 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72653986. Unique identifier: nc72653986. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7588348 West, latitude 38.8183327 North, depth = 1.17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.17 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 71 km (44 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, Colusa, Winters. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 3 km W of Cobb, California.
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