A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73077700. Unique identifier: nc73077700. Exact location of earthquake, -122.7963333° West, 38.8188324° North, depth 3.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.08 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:58:55 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/18 / 2018-08-30 02:58:55 / August 30, 2018 @ 2:58 am.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napa, Williams, Petaluma. Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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