A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 19:36:59 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.19 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73179615. Unique identifier: nc73179615. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/19 / 2019-05-10 03:36:59 / May 10, 2019 @ 3:36 am. Exact location of event, depth 1.19 km, -122.7799988° West, 38.8055° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams.
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km NNW of The Geysers, CA.
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