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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Napa in CA


Earthquake location 38.3866653S, -122.2228317WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Napa in CA on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73196411. Id of event: nc73196411. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.33 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/19 / 2019-06-12 08:06:23 / June 12, 2019 @ 8:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:06:23 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -122.2228317 West, latitude 38.3866653 North, depth = 9.33 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Elk Grove (c. 153 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arden-Arcade, Rosemont, Vineyard (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 11 km NNE of Napa, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.2228317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3866653° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE of Napa, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-12 08:06:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 08:11:02 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 121 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1122 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 55 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 nc73196411 Id of event.
Event Code 73196411 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73196411, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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