Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Cobb in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cobb in California. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:12:29 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -122.824501° West, latitude 38.840168° North, depth = 1.71 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.71 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72720210. Unique identifier: nc72720210. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/16 / 2016-11-04 08:12:29 / November 4, 2016 @ 8:12 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Petaluma, Sonoma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.824501° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.840168° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WNW of Cobb, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-04 08:12:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-04 08:19:43	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	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	131	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.008723	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	nc72720210	Id of event.
Event Code	72720210	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72720210,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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