Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Lower Lake in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Lower Lake in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 01:25:49 / January 19, 2018 @ 1:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.6610031 West, latitude 38.9186668 North, depth = 1.52 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72956040. Id of event: nc72956040. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.52 km (1 miles). The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:25:49 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napa, Petaluma, Winters (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km WNW of Lower Lake, CA.

CA Lower Lake Napa Petaluma Rohnert Park Santa Rosa United States Windsor Winters

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.6610031° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9186668° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WNW of Lower Lake, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-19 01:25:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-19 01:34:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	127	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	nc72956040	Id of event.
Event Code	72956040	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72956040,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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