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Light earthquake 4.14 mag, 1 km WSW of The Geysers, CA


Earthquake location 38.7753334S, -122.7681656WA light earthquake magnitude 4.14 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7681656 West, latitude 38.7753334 North, depth = 2.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73300395. Id of event: nc73300395. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 20:34:57 / November 3, 2019 @ 8:34 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.18 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:34:57 / 12:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Rafael, San Anselmo, Dixon (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 1 km WSW of The Geysers, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7681656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7753334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW 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 2019-11-03 20:34:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 20:41:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.87 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 267 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73300395 Id of event.
Event Code 73300395 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73300395, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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