Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag has occurred near The Geysers in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Thursday. Unique identifier: nc75081401. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75081401. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:14:26 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.7699999809265 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 17:14:26 / October 31, 2024 @ 5:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -122.77683258057° West, latitude 38.802665710449° North, depth = 3.7699999809265 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colusa, Novato, Winters (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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), 79 km (49 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NNW of The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Colusa Napa Novato Petaluma Rohnert Park Santa Rosa The Geysers United States Winters

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.77683258057° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.802665710449° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.7699999809265 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km 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	2024-10-31 17:14:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-31 17:20:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	167	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	nc75081401	Id of event.
Event Code	75081401	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75081401,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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