Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near The Geysers in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/17 / 2017-04-17 20:31:45 / April 17, 2017 @ 8:31 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7261658 West, latitude 38.7755013 North, depth = 0.99 km. Unique identifier: nc72789886. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72789886. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.99 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:31:45 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dixon, Vallejo, Suisun. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km E of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7261658° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7755013° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km E of The Geysers, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-17 20:31:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-17 20:42:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	27	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.32	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	reviewed	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	234	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007326	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72789886	Id of event.
Event Code	72789886	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72789886,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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