A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cobb in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7914963 West, latitude 38.8318329 North, depth = 1.57 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.57 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 18:31:33 / February 26, 2020 @ 6:31 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73346365. Unique identifier: nc73346365. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:31:33 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Petaluma, Sonoma (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km W of Cobb, CA.
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