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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near The Geysers in California


Earthquake location 38.8032S, -122.763WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.98 km (-1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 21:45:57 / March 18, 2016 @ 9:45 pm. Unique identifier: us20005aw6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005aw6, nc72608595. Exact location of earthquake, -122.763° West, 38.8032° North, depth -0.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:45:57 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colusa, Novato, Winters. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 64 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). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km N of The Geysers, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8032° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N 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 2016-03-18 21:45:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 22:04:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us20005aw6 Id of event.
Event Code 20005aw6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005aw6,nc72608595, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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