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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near The Geysers in California

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Earthquake location 38.7961667S, -122.7635WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in California on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.7635 West, latitude 38.7961667 North, depth = 2.16 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:43:40 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72755925. Unique identifier: nc72755925. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.16 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 05:43:40 / January 25, 2017 @ 5:43 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7961667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW 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 2017-01-25 05:43:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-01 21:22:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01931 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mh The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72755925 Id of event.
Event Code 72755925 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72755925, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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