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Minor earthquake 3.33 mag, 4 km NE of Kenwood, California


Earthquake location 38.440834S, -122.507164WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Kenwood in California. Id of earthquake: nc72669095. Event ids that are associated: nc72669095. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:32:47 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.18 km, -122.507164° West, 38.440834° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.18 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 23:32:47 / August 1, 2016 @ 11:32 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Danville, Daly City, Alameda (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 4 km NE of Kenwood, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.507164° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.440834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Kenwood, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-01 23:32:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-01 23:40:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 56 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 192 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1028 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 60 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 nc72669095 Id of event.
Event Code 72669095 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72669095, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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