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Minor earthquake 3.31 mag, 15 km SSE of Tres Pinos, CA


Earthquake location 36.659832S, -121.2861633WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. Event id: nc72945111. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72945111. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.39 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 08:54:13 / December 28, 2017 @ 8:54 am. Exact location, longitude -121.2861633° West, latitude 36.659832° North, depth = 7.39 km. The temblor was detected at 00:54:13 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendota, Scotts Valley, Firebaugh. The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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. Every 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. 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: 15 km SSE of Tres Pinos, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.2861633° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.659832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE 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 2017-12-28 08:54:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-28 09:04:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 172 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 0.05398 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 77 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 nc72945111 Id of event.
Event Code 72945111 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72945111, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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