Minor earthquake, 3.61 mag has occurred near Northern California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) strikes Northern California kilometers (0 miles) from Northern California on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72669111. Id of event: nc72669111. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:11:23 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.92 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 17:11:23 / July 30, 2016 @ 5:11 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7208328 West, latitude 38.7446671 North, depth = 1.92 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fairfax, Dixon, Woodland (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: Northern California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.61 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7208328° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7446671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Northern California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-30 17:11:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-30 17:17:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.82	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	200	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	62	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	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	17	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	nc72669111	Id of event.
Event Code	72669111	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72669111,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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