Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag has occurred near Tres Pinos in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.28 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.2774963 West, latitude 36.6785011 North, depth = 6.28 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 10:00:17 / March 1, 2018 @ 10:00 am. The temblor was detected at 02:00:17 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc72977826. Event ids that are associated: nc72977826.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendota, Scotts Valley, Firebaugh. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SSE of Tres Pinos, CA.

CA Firebaugh Gilroy Mendota Morgan Hill Salinas Santa Cruz Scotts Valley Tres Pinos United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2774963° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6785011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km 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	2018-03-01 10:00:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-01 10:13:06	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	2.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.42	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	185	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07383	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	93	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	nc72977826	Id of event.
Event Code	72977826	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72977826,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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