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Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag has occurred near San Martin in CA


Earthquake location 37.1124992S, -121.5203323WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Martin in CA. Unique identifier: nc72943706. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72943706. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.55 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 00:31:27 / December 24, 2017 @ 12:31 am. Exact location, longitude -121.5203323° West, latitude 37.1124992° North, depth = 7.55 km. The temblor was reported at 16:31:27 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lathrop, Castro Valley, Cherryland. The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ENE of San Martin, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.35 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5203323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1124992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of San Martin, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-24 00:31:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-24 00:37:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 173 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 nc72943706 Id of event.
Event Code 72943706 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72943706, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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