Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag was detected near Patterson in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Patterson in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 18:50:52 / November 24, 2016 @ 6:50 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72729080. Unique identifier: nc72729080. The temblor was picked up at 10:50:52 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.08 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -121.3451691 West, latitude 37.2830009 North, depth = 0.08 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodside, Redwood City, Ashland (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 28 km SW of Patterson, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.34 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3451691° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2830009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SW of Patterson, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-24 18:50:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-25 23:11:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	reviewed	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	172	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.241	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72729080	Id of event.
Event Code	72729080	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72729080,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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