Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near The Geysers in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from The Geysers in California. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7884979 West, latitude 38.8058319 North, depth = 0.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72757450. Id of event: nc72757450. The temblor was picked up at 17:54:15 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/17 / 2017-01-29 01:54:15 / January 29, 2017 @ 1:54 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Williams, Petaluma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

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 fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 4 km NW of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.7884979° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8058319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NW 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	2017-01-29 01:54:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-29 02:00:03	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	130	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005729	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	nc72757450	Id of event.
Event Code	72757450	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72757450,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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