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Minor earthquake, 3.74 mag has occurred near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.823833465576S, -122.8004989624WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75100701, ew1733810140. Unique identifier: nc75100701. The 3.74-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:55:38 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.4500000476837 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.8004989624 West, latitude 38.823833465576 North, depth = 2.4500000476837 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 05:55:38 / December 10, 2024 @ 5:55 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was American Canyon, Novato, Colusa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 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 3.74 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8004989624° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.823833465576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.4500000476837 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 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 2024-12-10 05:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-10 06:01:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.304 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 215 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,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 92 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.007492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 nc75100701 Id of event.
Event Code 75100701 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75100701,ew1733810140, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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