A light earthquake magnitude 4.06 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/17 / 2017-02-21 00:57:52 / February 21, 2017 @ 12:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:57:52 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -122.7340012° West, latitude 38.7958336° North, depth = 0.87 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72766046. Unique identifier: nc72766046. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.87 km (1 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dixon, Vallejo, Suisun (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NE of The Geysers, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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