A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.8010025 West, latitude 38.8125 North, depth = 1.16 km. The temblor was detected at 19:05:05 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.16 km (1 miles). Event id: nc73102701. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73102701. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 03:05:05 / October 27, 2018 @ 3:05 am.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Williams, Petaluma (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA.
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