Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag was detected near Soledad in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Soledad in California on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 20:11:19 / October 29, 2017 @ 8:11 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:11:19 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -121.1756668 West, latitude 36.5813332 North, depth = 5.7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72915961. Id of event: nc72915961.

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aptos, Rio Del Mar, Gustine (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 22 km NE of Soledad, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.19 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.1756668° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5813332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NE of Soledad, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-29 20:11:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-29 20:21:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	157	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01327	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	nc72915961	Id of event.
Event Code	72915961	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72915961,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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