A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cobb in California on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72740405. Id of event: nc72740405. The temblor was picked up at 11:09:31 / 11:09 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 19:09:31 / December 17, 2016 @ 7:09 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.98 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7841644 West, latitude 38.8371658 North, depth = 0.98 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Petaluma, Sonoma (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WNW of Cobb, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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