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Minor earthquake: M3.74 quake has struck near Morgan Hill in CA


Earthquake location 37.1646652S, -121.5524979WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Morgan Hill in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/12/20 / 2020-12-15 14:58:40 / December 15, 2020 @ 2:58 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.56 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc73498145. Ids that are associated to the event: ew1608044319, nc73498145, us7000cr8s. The temblor was picked up at 14:58:40 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.5524979 West, latitude 37.1646652 North, depth = 5.56 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winton, Brentwood, Hillsborough. Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop).

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

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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 ENE of Morgan Hill, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.74 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5524979° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1646652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Morgan Hill, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-15 14:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-15 15:08:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 52 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.089 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 239 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 ,ew,nc,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 nc73498145 Id of event.
Event Code 73498145 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1608044319,nc73498145,us7000cr8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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