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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near Tres Pinos in CA


Earthquake location 36.6766663S, -121.3011703WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:15:18 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/12/17 / 2017-12-02 07:15:18 / December 2, 2017 @ 7:15 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72933545. Id of event: nc72933545. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.33 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.33 km, -121.3011703° West, 36.6766663° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Firebaugh, Scotts Valley, Newman (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 13 km S of Tres Pinos, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3011703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6766663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km S of Tres Pinos, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-02 07:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-02 07:21:12 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 3.8 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 177 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 nc72933545 Id of event.
Event Code 72933545 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72933545, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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