Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Ridgemark in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgemark in California on Friday. Event id: nc72577646. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72577646. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 22:18:16 / January 8, 2016 @ 10:18 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:18:16 / 2:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.88 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -121.2826691° West, latitude 36.6558342° North, depth = 6.88 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Firebaugh, Newman, Santa Cruz.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km SSE of Ridgemark, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2826691° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6558342° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km SSE of Ridgemark, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-08 22:18:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-08 22:36:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	130	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01299	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	nc72577646	Id of event.
Event Code	72577646	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72577646,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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