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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 4 km NNW of The Geysers, CA


Earthquake location 38.8055S, -122.7799988WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7799988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW 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 2019-05-10 03:36:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-10 03:41:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 128 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 44 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 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73179615 Id of event.
Event Code 73179615 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73179615, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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