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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near The Geysers in California

Posted by admin on September 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8255005S, -122.8281631WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from The Geysers in California on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -122.8281631 West, latitude 38.8255005 North, depth = 2.04 km. The temblor was reported at 09:11:00 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.04 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 16:11:00 / September 1, 2016 @ 4:11 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc72688586. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72688586.

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 75 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). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Williams, Petaluma (min 5000 pop). 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 8 km NW of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8281631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8255005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.04 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 2016-09-01 16:11:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 16:14:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 147 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 nc72688586 Id of event.
Event Code 72688586 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72688586, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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