A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ridgemark in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72775221. Unique identifier: nc72775221. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/17 / 2017-03-14 08:33:40 / March 14, 2017 @ 8:33 am. Exact location, longitude -121.0123367° West, latitude 36.7355003° North, depth = 4.77 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:33:40 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.77 km (3 miles).
Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monterey, Delhi, Chowchilla (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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