Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Rohnert Park in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Rohnert Park in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.49 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73039516. Id of event: nc73039516. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 19:53:55 / July 2, 2018 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:53:55 / 11:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.6361694 West, latitude 38.3498344 North, depth = 6.49 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamo, Clayton, Pittsburg (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. 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: 6 km ENE of Rohnert Park, CA.

Alamo CA Clayton Concord Oakland Pittsburg Rohnert Park San Francisco Santa Rosa United States Vallejo

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.6361694° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3498344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE of Rohnert Park, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-02 19:53:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-02 19:55:34	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	135	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04579	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	nc73039516	Id of event.
Event Code	73039516	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73039516,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Rohnert Park in CA

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information