Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Cobb in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cobb in California on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -122.8093338° West, latitude 38.8286667° North, depth = -0.17 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72791211. Id of event: nc72791211. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.17 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:20:36 / 6:20 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 14:20:36 / April 20, 2017 @ 2:20 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napa, Petaluma, Williams (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 7 km W of Cobb, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8093338° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8286667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km W of Cobb, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-20 14:20:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-20 14:25:02	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	126	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	nc72791211	Id of event.
Event Code	72791211	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72791211,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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