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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 0 km N of Gonzales, California


Earthquake location 36.5152S, -121.4427WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Gonzales in California on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/21 / 2021-01-03 05:21:56 / January 3, 2021 @ 5:21 am. Id of earthquake: us6000d554. Event ids that are associated: us6000d554. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.04 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.04 km, -121.4427° West, 36.5152° North. The temblor was reported at 05:21:56 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Banos, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km N of Gonzales, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.4427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5152° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0 km N of Gonzales, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-03 05:21:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-03 05:34:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 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 169 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us6000d554 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d554 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d554, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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