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Minor earthquake 3.55 mag, 7 km S of Muir Beach, CA


Earthquake location 37.7996674S, -122.5923309WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Muir Beach in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/20 / 2020-12-31 13:41:58 / December 31, 2020 @ 1:41 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:41:58 / 1:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73505175. Id of event: nc73505175. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.35 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.5923309 West, latitude 37.7996674 North, depth = 14.35 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Gatos, Alum Rock, East Foothills. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km S of Muir Beach, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.5923309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7996674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km S of Muir Beach, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-31 13:41:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-31 13:49:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.89 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 194 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08854 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 92 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 nc73505175 Id of event.
Event Code 73505175 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73505175, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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