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Light earthquake, 4.07 mag strikes near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.8139992S, -122.8231659WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Exact location of event, depth 1.64 km, -122.8231659° West, 38.8139992° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 07:46:25 / June 11, 2019 @ 7:46 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73195396. Unique identifier: nc73195396. The temblor was reported at 23:46:25 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.64 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Vacaville (c. 92 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vacaville, Lucas Valley-Marinwood, American Canyon. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km NW of The Geysers, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.8231659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8139992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW 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 2019-06-11 07:46:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-11 07:55:19 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 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.76 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 256 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73195396 Id of event.
Event Code 73195396 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73195396, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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