A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from The Geysers in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 12:40:50 / May 17, 2025 @ 12:40 pm. Unique identifier: nc75183462. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75183462. The temblor was detected at 12:40:50 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.579999923706 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, depth 3.579999923706 km, -122.76650238037° West, 38.792331695557° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Napa (c. 76 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Petaluma (c. 57 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Novato (c. 51 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Rohnert Park (c. 41 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Novato, Winters, Napa (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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