Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near The Geysers in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. The temblor was picked up at 20:06:39 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73364025. Id of event: nc73364025. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7279968 West, latitude 38.7588348 North, depth = 2.24 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 04:06:39 / April 5, 2020 @ 4:06 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.24 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vacaville, American Canyon, Novato (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SE of The Geysers, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

American Canyon CA Napa Novato Petaluma Santa Rosa The Geysers United States Vacaville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7279968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7588348° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SE 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	2020-04-05 04:06:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-05 04:12:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.003687	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	nc73364025	Id of event.
Event Code	73364025	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73364025,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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