Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near San Francisco Zoo in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Francisco Zoo in CA on Friday. Global time and date of event 10/01/25 / 2025-01-10 18:48:01 / January 10, 2025 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc75115546. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75115546. The temblor was picked up at 18:48:01 / 6:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.3699998855591 km, -122.55966949463° West, 37.756832122803° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.3699998855591 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Gatos, Brentwood, Alum Rock (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.55966949463° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.756832122803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.3699998855591 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NW of San Francisco Zoo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-10 18:48:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-10 18:51:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	137	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	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07732	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	nc75115546	Id of event.
Event Code	75115546	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75115546,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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