Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Pinnacles in CA. The temblor was detected at 05:05:38 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.21817016602 West, latitude 36.574165344238 North, depth = 5.3200001716614 km. Id of earthquake: nc75254276. Event ids that are associated: nc75254276. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.3200001716614 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/25 / 2025-10-25 05:05:38 / October 25, 2025 @ 5:05 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soquel, Capitola, Opal Cliffs (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NW of Pinnacles, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Capitola Gilroy Los Banos Morgan Hill Opal Cliffs Pinnacles Salinas Soquel United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.21817016602° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.574165344238° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.3200001716614 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NW of Pinnacles, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-25 05:05:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-25 05:09:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	153	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02649	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	nc75254276	Id of event.
Event Code	75254276	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75254276,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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