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Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Anderson Springs in CA


Earthquake location 38.7594986S, -122.7194977WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Anderson Springs in CA on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.14 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: nc73076855. Event ids that are associated: nc73076855. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:52:56 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/08/18 / 2018-08-28 11:52:56 / August 28, 2018 @ 11:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -122.7194977 West, latitude 38.7594986 North, depth = 1.14 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was American Canyon, Novato, Winters. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SW of Anderson Springs, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.7194977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7594986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW of Anderson Springs, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-28 11:52:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-28 11:59:02 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 128 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 nc73076855 Id of event.
Event Code 73076855 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73076855, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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