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Minor earthquake, 3.93 mag was detected near The Geysers in California


Earthquake location 38.7833328S, -122.7476654WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California. Global time and date of event 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 17:41:18 / August 23, 2015 @ 5:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:41:18 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.7476654 West, latitude 38.7833328 North, depth = 4.01 km. Unique identifier: nc72511186. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72511186. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.01 km (2 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallejo, Suisun, Fairfield. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, 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 in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NE of The Geysers, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7476654° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7833328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of The Geysers, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-23 17:41:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 17:51:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 30 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.17 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 248 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008551 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 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72511186 Id of event.
Event Code 72511186 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72511186, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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