Minor earthquake, 3.86 mag was detected near The Geysers in CA

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from The Geysers in CA on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -122.8015° West, 38.801833333333° North, depth 2.6 km. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 18:46:10 / December 5, 2024 @ 6:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:46:10 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc75001908. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75001908. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.6 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lucas Valley-Marinwood, Vacaville, American Canyon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km NW of The Geysers, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8015° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.801833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NW 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	2024-12-05 18:46:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-13 19:42:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.2	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	reviewed	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	232	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007808	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	nc75001908	Id of event.
Event Code	75001908	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75001908,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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