Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag has occurred near Piedmont in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Piedmont in CA on Thursday. Global time and date of event 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 14:11:07 / January 17, 2019 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73133716. Unique identifier: nc73133716. The 3.47-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:11:07 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.56 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -122.2348328 West, latitude 37.8521652 North, depth = 11.56 km.

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stockton, Sebastopol, Country Club (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 3 km N of Piedmont, CA.

CA Country Club Fremont Oakland Piedmont San Francisco San Jose Sebastopol Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.47 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.2348328° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.8521652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km N of Piedmont, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-17 14:11:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-17 14:20:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	152	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.16	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	243	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02366	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	nc73133716	Id of event.
Event Code	73133716	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73133716,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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