A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 13:35:45 / January 16, 2017 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72752870. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72752870. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.98 km (1 miles). The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:35:45 / 5:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -122.7583313° West, latitude 38.7928352° North, depth = 0.98 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams.
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 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 1 km N of The Geysers, California.
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