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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 6 km NW of Hidden Valley Lake, California


Earthquake location 38.8524S, -122.6115WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Hidden Valley Lake in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 08:10:42 / October 28, 2019 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us600063vn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73298075, us600063vn. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -122.6115° West, 38.8524° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:10:42 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was American Canyon, Vacaville, Woodland. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Woodland (c. 55 500 pop).

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

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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. 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 Hidden Valley Lake, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.6115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of Hidden Valley Lake, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-28 08:10:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-01 06:19:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 reviewed 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 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us600063vn Id of event.
Event Code 600063vn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73298075,us600063vn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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