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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag has occurred near San Martin in CA


Earthquake location 37.1105003S, -121.5181656WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Martin in CA. Exact location of earthquake, -121.5181656° West, 37.1105003° North, depth 7.09 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.09 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72944676. Id of event: nc72944676. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/17 / 2017-12-27 03:19:36 / December 27, 2017 @ 3:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:19:36 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fairview, Ripon, Soledad (min 5000 pop). 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), 54 km (34 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km ENE of San Martin, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5181656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1105003° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2017-12-27 03:19:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-27 03:33:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 38 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 reviewed 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 nc72944676 Id of event.
Event Code 72944676 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72944676, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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