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Minor earthquake 3.16 mag, 14 km E of Angwin, California


Earthquake location 38.5514984S, -122.2868347WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Angwin in California on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 06:02:38 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/17 / 2017-02-06 14:02:38 / February 6, 2017 @ 2:02 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72760230. Id of event: nc72760230. Exact location, longitude -122.2868347° West, latitude 38.5514984° North, depth = 7.81 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.81 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosemont, Emeryville, Oakley (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Berkeley (c. 112 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km E of Angwin, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.2868347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5514984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km E of Angwin, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-06 14:02:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-06 14:08:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 154 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.115 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 nc72760230 Id of event.
Event Code 72760230 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72760230, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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