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Minor earthquake 2.95 mag, 7 km NE of Angwin, California


Earthquake location 38.625S, -122.3844986WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Angwin in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.54 km (-0 miles). The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:21:44 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72901891. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72901891. Global time and date of event 29/09/17 / 2017-09-29 21:21:44 / September 29, 2017 @ 9:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -122.3844986° West, 38.625° North, depth -0.54 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corte Madera, Concord, Larkspur (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Concord (c. 122 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Vallejo (c. 115 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Fairfield (c. 105 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NE of Angwin, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.3844986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NE of Angwin, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-29 21:21:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-29 21:25:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 135 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 nc72901891 Id of event.
Event Code 72901891 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72901891, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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