A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73446570. Id of event: nc73446570. The temblor was detected at 13:23:42 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -122.8131638° West, latitude 38.8160019° North, depth = 2.75 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.75 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/20 / 2020-08-17 13:23:42 / August 17, 2020 @ 1:23 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winters, Napa, Williams (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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