Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near The Geysers in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from The Geysers in California on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.32 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 07:47:15 / August 10, 2016 @ 7:47 am. Id of earthquake: nc72672835. Event ids that are associated: nc72672835. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:47:15 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.8395004 West, latitude 38.8236656 North, depth = 0.32 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Williams, Petaluma. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 8 km NW of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8395004° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8236656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NW 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	2016-08-10 07:47:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-10 07:50:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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		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	128	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01411	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	53	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72672835	Id of event.
Event Code	72672835	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72672835,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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