Federal officials have upgraded Friday's earthquake in The Geysers area to a magnitude of 3.7 from the initial 3.3.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 2:30 a.m. quake was was centered about one mile north of The Geysers and five miles southwest of Cobb in Lake County.
The Geysers and surrounding communities frequently are shaken by small quakes, but in the last year a few have registered as high as 4.1.
On Sunday, a 3.2 quake was recorded at 11:16 a.m. about eight miles northeast of Point Arena in Mendocino County, according to the Geological Survey.
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In the area of this geysers is settlement of vacation and residential homes called Cob Mountain, which live under the shadow of the mountain that the gysewers sit on...The population of this homestead have always lived with rock and roll activity and wonder when ,.......there is also geothermal plant being operated by Bottle Rock power plant on these geysers..the residents are concerned with company's activity and are trying set an oversight comitte as to monitor there's movements as it seems they in it for the money and the fall out is maybe a second thought of unimportants....they continue to tap the pressures of the heated water from wells and i believe also forces water into the geysers (that generates artificial pressure) too to produce necessary steam to generate the energy to turn the turbine generators .......so they manipulate the situation and possibly help cause earth quake activity in the area as well as the state .........go to the usgs site and u will see that the time the geysers are active the pinnacles near (as well as) Holster also become as active with earth movement around form mag.1.5 t0 the 3s are very common....... one wonders if there is connection their efforts force the geyser's (for profit)to produce power artificially are adding to the possibility of creating the big one in California....... it does put a spin on the ability for man to create earth quakes artificially.