A minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yountville in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73143141, us2000jj3t. Unique identifier: nc73143141. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.27 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -122.4018326 West, latitude 38.3516655 North, depth = 8.27 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 09:55:24 / February 17, 2019 @ 9:55 am. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:55:24 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Mateo, Florin, Hillsborough (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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. 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: 7 km SSW of Yountville, CA.
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