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Minor earthquake 3.08 mag, 4 km NW of The Geysers, CA


Earthquake location 38.8041649S, -122.7796631WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.34 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.34 km, -122.7796631° West, 38.8041649° North. Unique identifier: nc72990036. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72990036. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/18 / 2018-03-25 18:59:33 / March 25, 2018 @ 6:59 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:59:33 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NW of The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7796631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8041649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of The Geysers, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-25 18:59:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-25 19:04:04 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 146 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 nc72990036 Id of event.
Event Code 72990036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72990036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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