Minor earthquake: M3.18 quake has struck near Tres Pinos in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73105281. Unique identifier: nc73105281. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:01:14 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/11/18 / 2018-11-02 13:01:14 / November 2, 2018 @ 1:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.05 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 4.05 km, -121.3171692° West, 36.689167° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Firebaugh, Newman, Scotts Valley (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km S of Tres Pinos, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3171692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.689167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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	2018-11-02 13:01:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-02 13:06:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	156	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07817	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	64	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	nc73105281	Id of event.
Event Code	73105281	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73105281,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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