A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Seven Trees in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.45 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 01:31:07 / April 14, 2017 @ 1:31 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72788461. Id of event: nc72788461. Exact location of event, longitude -121.663002 West, latitude 37.2840004 North, depth = 5.45 km. The temblor was detected at 17:31:07 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monterey, Oakland, Hughson (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 15 km E of Seven Trees, California.
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