Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag was detected near Cloverdale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cloverdale in California. Exact location, longitude -123.0026703° West, latitude 38.9018326° North, depth = 2.7 km. Global time and date of event 29/05/17 / 2017-05-29 18:21:25 / May 29, 2017 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: nc72807936. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72807936. The 3.49-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:21:25 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.7 km (2 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sonoma, Petaluma, Boyes Hot Springs (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km N of Cloverdale, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.49 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.0026703° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9018326° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km N of Cloverdale, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-29 18:21:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-29 18:27:29	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	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.1	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	188	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	nc72807936	Id of event.
Event Code	72807936	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72807936,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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