A minor earthquake magnitude 3.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7843323 West, latitude 38.7986679 North, depth = -0.17 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 02:59:27 / May 10, 2018 @ 2:59 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.17 km (-0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73014286. Unique identifier: nc73014286. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:59:27 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suisun, Vallejo, Fairfield. Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km NW of The Geysers, CA.
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