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Minor earthquake 3.73 mag, 5 km S of Gilroy, California


Earthquake location 36.9583321S, -121.5800018WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.73 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Gilroy in California on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/17 / 2017-02-26 14:58:40 / February 26, 2017 @ 2:58 pm. The temblor was picked up at 06:58:40 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.5800018° West, latitude 36.9583321° North, depth = 5.24 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.24 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72768191. Unique identifier: nc72768191.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Redwood Shores, San Carlos, Pleasanton (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Livermore (c. 81 000 pop).

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

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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: 5 km S of Gilroy, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.73 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5800018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9583321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of Gilroy, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-26 14:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-26 15:05:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.56 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 217 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 nc72768191 Id of event.
Event Code 72768191 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72768191, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Tor

    Woke me up. Minor shaking for one second. This happened 3 miles South of Gilroy, CA.

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