Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Suisun City in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Suisun City in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 17:01:55 / August 2, 2018 @ 5:01 pm. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:01:55 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.91 km (12 miles). Event id: nc73063751. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73063751. Exact location of event, depth 19.91 km, -121.8603363° West, 38.196167° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was South San Francisco, Orangevale, Daly City. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km ESE of Suisun City, CA.

CA Daly City Fremont Oakland Orangevale Sacramento San Francisco South San Francisco Stockton Suisun City United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8603363° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.196167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km ESE of Suisun City, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-02 17:01:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-02 17:07:04	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	133	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	nc73063751	Id of event.
Event Code	73063751	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73063751,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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