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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA


Earthquake location 38.838665S, -122.8264999WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Friday. The temblor was detected at 06:15:33 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 14:15:33 / September 27, 2019 @ 2:15 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -122.8264999 West, latitude 38.838665 North, depth = 2.12 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73281920. Id of event: nc73281920. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.12 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napa, Petaluma, Sonoma. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 9 km NW of The Geysers, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8264999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.838665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2019-09-27 14:15:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 14:18:40 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 131 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01616 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 59 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 nc73281920 Id of event.
Event Code 73281920 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73281920, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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