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Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 5 km ESE of The Geysers, California


Earthquake location 38.7495003S, -122.69767WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/16 / 2016-11-11 13:49:36 / November 11, 2016 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:36 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72723635. Unique identifier: nc72723635. Exact location of earthquake, -122.69767° West, 38.7495003° North, depth 1.3 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallejo, Suisun, Woodland (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km ESE of The Geysers, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.69767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7495003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE 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 2016-11-11 13:49:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-11 13:52:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 176 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 0.01869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 nc72723635 Id of event.
Event Code 72723635 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72723635, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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