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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag was detected near Crockett in CA


Earthquake location 38.0699997S, -122.2193298WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Crockett in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73079240. Unique identifier: nc73079240. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.92 km (6 miles). The 3.55-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:27:54 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.2193298 West, latitude 38.0699997 North, depth = 8.92 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/18 / 2018-09-02 00:27:54 / September 2, 2018 @ 12:27 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Florin, Sacramento, Cupertino. The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 2 km NNW of Crockett, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.2193298° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0699997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Crockett, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-02 00:27:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-02 00:38:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 81 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.87 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 reviewed 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 225 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007818 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 nc73079240 Id of event.
Event Code 73079240 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73079240, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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