Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Ridgemark in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgemark in CA on Sunday. Id of earthquake: nc75202036. Event ids that are associated: nc75202036. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.45500183106 West, latitude 36.741832733154 North, depth = 7.6500000953674 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/25 / 2025-06-29 03:22:01 / June 29, 2025 @ 3:22 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.6500000953674 km (5 miles). The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:22:01 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jose, Alum Rock, Saratoga. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. 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 thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 11 km WSW of Ridgemark, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Alum Rock CA Gilroy Ridgemark Salinas San Jose Santa Cruz Saratoga United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.45500183106° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.741832733154° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.6500000953674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km WSW of Ridgemark, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-29 03:22:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-29 03:25:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	128	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	nc75202036	Id of event.
Event Code	75202036	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75202036,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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