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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag strikes near The Geysers in CA

Posted by admin on June 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8098335S, -122.7823334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.13 km (-0 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:28:56 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 06:28:56 / June 21, 2018 @ 6:28 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc73033506. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73033506. Exact location of earthquake, -122.7823334° West, 38.8098335° North, depth -0.13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNW of The Geysers, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7823334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8098335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW 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 2018-06-21 06:28:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-21 06:31:39 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 136 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.003655 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 28 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 nc73033506 Id of event.
Event Code 73033506 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73033506, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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