Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near The Geysers in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72767726. Unique identifier: nc72767726. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:01:32 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.8040009 West, latitude 38.8199997 North, depth = 3.22 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 12:01:32 / February 25, 2017 @ 12:01 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.22 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams. Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 30 km (19 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 eight and in the last 365 days fifty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km NW of The Geysers, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.09 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8040009° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8199997° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2017-02-25 12:01:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-25 12:06:02	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	147	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005831	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	nc72767726	Id of event.
Event Code	72767726	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72767726,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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