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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near San Ramon in California

Posted by admin on October 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.8023338S, -121.9703369WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from San Ramon in California on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/15 / 2015-10-27 09:36:43 / October 27, 2015 @ 9:36 am. Event id: nc72544645. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72544645. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:36:43 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.9703369° West, 37.8023338° North, depth 9.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.44 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Galt, Petaluma, Ripon (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km NNE of San Ramon, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.9703369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8023338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNE of San Ramon, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-27 09:36:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-27 09:39:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 126 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72544645 Id of event.
Event Code 72544645 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72544645, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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