Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pinnacles in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.63 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/20 / 2020-12-30 00:14:51 / December 30, 2020 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc73504280. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73504280. Exact location of event, longitude -121.2095032 West, latitude 36.607666 North, depth = 5.63 km. The temblor was detected at 00:14:51 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mendota, Gustine, Aptos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km NW of Pinnacles, CA.

Aptos CA Gilroy Gustine Los Banos Mendota Morgan Hill Pinnacles Salinas United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2095032° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.607666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NW of Pinnacles, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-30 00:14:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-30 00:22:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	121	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08468	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc73504280	Id of event.
Event Code	73504280	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73504280,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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