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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.8236656S, -122.8525009WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from The Geysers in CA. The temblor was detected at 20:58:18 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.91 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.91 km, -122.8525009° West, 38.8236656° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73186646. Unique identifier: nc73186646. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 04:58:18 / May 25, 2019 @ 4:58 am.

The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 77 km (48 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). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napa, Williams, Sonoma.

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 thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WNW of The Geysers, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8525009° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8236656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of The Geysers, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-25 04:58:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 05:01:01 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 156 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.005164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 nc73186646 Id of event.
Event Code 73186646 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73186646, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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