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Minor earthquake 3.05 mag, 10 km S of Tres Pinos, CA


Earthquake location 36.6969986S, -121.3253326WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. The temblor was picked up at 01:56:06 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73235851. Event ids that are associated: nc73235851. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 09:56:06 / July 27, 2019 @ 9:56 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.14 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -121.3253326 West, latitude 36.6969986 North, depth = 1.14 km.

Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Newman, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km S of Tres Pinos, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3253326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6969986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2019-07-27 09:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-27 10:01:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 143 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08639 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 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 nc73235851 Id of event.
Event Code 73235851 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73235851, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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