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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.8190002S, -122.8030014WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 11:52:04 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.13 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, depth 3.13 km, -122.8030014° West, 38.8190002° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73174130. Unique identifier: nc73174130. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 19:52:04 / April 29, 2019 @ 7:52 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (42 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8030014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8190002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of The Geysers, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 19:52:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 20:00:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 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 automatic 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 159 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 nc73174130 Id of event.
Event Code 73174130 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73174130, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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