Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near The Geysers in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7799988 West, latitude 38.8035011 North, depth = 2.09 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73071866. Id of event: nc73071866. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 14:14:52 / August 16, 2018 @ 2:14 pm. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:14:52 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.09 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Novato, Winters, Napa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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), 80 km (49 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km NW of The Geysers, CA.

CA Napa Novato Petaluma Rohnert Park Santa Rosa The Geysers United States Winters

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7799988° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8035011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.09 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	2018-08-16 14:14:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-16 14:28:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	162	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009758	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	nc73071866	Id of event.
Event Code	73071866	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73071866,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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