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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.803833S, -122.7774963WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Global time and date of event 24/09/20 / 2020-09-24 10:11:15 / September 24, 2020 @ 10:11 am UTC/GMT. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:11:15 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73462221. Event ids that are associated: nc73462221. Exact location of event, depth 1.2 km, -122.7774963° West, 38.803833° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.2 km (1 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNW of The Geysers, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7774963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.803833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW 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 2020-09-24 10:11:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-24 10:15:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 128 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009736 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 36 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 nc73462221 Id of event.
Event Code 73462221 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73462221, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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