COBB, Calif. – The Geysers steamfield area was rattled by another moderate-sized earthquake early Friday morning.

The quake, measuring 3.0 in magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred at 2:59 a.m., according to the US Geological Survey.

It was centered three miles northwest of The Geysers, seven miles west of Cobb and nine miles east northeast of Cloverdale, at a depth of 1.7 miles, the survey reported.

The US Geological Survey received eight shake reports from seven zip codes – Clearlake Oaks, San Ramon, Oakland, Cloverdale and Redwood Valley, Campbell and Morgan Hill.

A 3.0-magnitude was most recently reported in the Cobb area on Nov. 8, two miles northeast of The Geysers, as Lake County News has reported.

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