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Minor earthquake 3.96 mag, 12 km SSE of Tres Pinos, CA


Earthquake location 36.6889992S, -121.286499WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. The temblor was reported at 19:33:42 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.95 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 03:33:42 / February 13, 2020 @ 3:33 am. Exact location of event, longitude -121.286499 West, latitude 36.6889992 North, depth = 7.95 km. Unique identifier: nc73340375. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73340375. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Campbell (c. 39 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alum Rock, Campbell, Hilmar-Irwin.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 12 km SSE of Tres Pinos, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.286499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6889992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2020-02-13 03:33:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 03:40:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.25 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 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 0.02736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73340375 Id of event.
Event Code 73340375 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73340375, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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