Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Cobb in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cobb in California. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/03/17 / 2017-03-27 05:22:53 / March 27, 2017 @ 5:22 am. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:22:53 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.08 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: nc72781036. Event ids that are associated: nc72781036. Exact location of event, depth 1.08 km, -122.7748337° West, 38.8235016° North.

Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Petaluma (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km W of Cobb, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7748337° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8235016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km W 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	2017-03-27 05:22:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-27 05:27:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.00795	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	31	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	nc72781036	Id of event.
Event Code	72781036	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72781036,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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