A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Unique identifier: nc73169920. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73169920. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 16:38:03 / April 21, 2019 @ 4:38 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:38:03 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7679977 West, latitude 38.7915001 North, depth = 1.95 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.95 km (1 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Novato, Winters, Napa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 51 km (31 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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