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Minor earthquake, 3.83 mag has occurred near Concord in CA


Earthquake location 37.9780006S, -122.0356674WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.83 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Concord in CA on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/21 / 2021-01-14 19:18:10 / January 14, 2021 @ 7:18 pm. Exact location, longitude -122.0356674° West, latitude 37.9780006° North, depth = 6.67 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73510910. Id of event: nc73510910. The temblor was reported at 19:18:10 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Riviera, Rosemont, Larkfield-Wikiup. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sacramento (c. 466 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 2 km WNW of Concord, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.0356674° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9780006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WNW of Concord, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-14 19:18:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-14 19:24:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 33 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.42 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 237 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 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 nc73510910 Id of event.
Event Code 73510910 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73510910, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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