Minor earthquake: M3.28 quake has struck near Cloverdale in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cloverdale in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.92 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -123.1600037° West, latitude 38.7756653° North, depth = 2.92 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/17 / 2017-03-07 12:59:40 / March 7, 2017 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72771356. Event ids that are associated: nc72771356. The temblor was detected at 04:59:40 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sonoma, Boyes Hot Springs, Petaluma. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ukiah (c. 16 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Cloverdale, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.1600037° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7756653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WSW of Cloverdale, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-07 12:59:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-07 13:04:46	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	166	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1356	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	nc72771356	Id of event.
Event Code	72771356	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72771356,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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