Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near The Geysers in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73413296. Unique identifier: nc73413296. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:53:50 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 19:53:50 / June 21, 2020 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.04 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 2.04 km, -122.8193359° West, 38.8028336° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napa, Williams, Petaluma (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km WNW of The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Napa Petaluma Rohnert Park Santa Rosa The Geysers United States Williams Windsor

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.8193359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8028336° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2020-06-21 19:53:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-21 19:58:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	0.009769	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	nc73413296	Id of event.
Event Code	73413296	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73413296,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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