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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near The Geysers in CA


Earthquake location 38.802165985107S, -122.81533050537WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from The Geysers in CA. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:48:04 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/08/25 / 2025-08-14 12:48:04 / August 14, 2025 @ 12:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -122.81533050537 West, latitude 38.802165985107 North, depth = 3.0499999523163 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.0499999523163 km (2 miles). Event id: nc75223077. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75223077, ew1755175680.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was American Canyon, Colusa, Novato (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event 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), 80 km (50 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Windsor (c. 26 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Did you feel anything?

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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NW of The Geysers, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.81533050537° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.802165985107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.0499999523163 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km 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 2025-08-14 12:48:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-14 12:52:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 211 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,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 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 nc75223077 Id of event.
Event Code 75223077 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75223077,ew1755175680, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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