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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Alamo in CA

Posted by admin on May 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.805168151855S, -122.06483459473WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Alamo in CA on Friday. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:10:44 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/25 / 2025-05-16 01:10:44 / May 16, 2025 @ 1:10 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75182637. Unique identifier: nc75182637. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.06483459473 West, latitude 37.805168151855 North, depth = 7.5700001716614 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.5700001716614 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Garden Acres, Manteca, Dixon. Event epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km SW of Alamo, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.06483459473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.805168151855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.5700001716614 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SW of Alamo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-16 01:10:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-16 01:14:46 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 3.1 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 129 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 nc75182637 Id of event.
Event Code 75182637 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75182637, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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