Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Lafayette in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Lafayette in CA. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:29:12 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75254811. Id of event: nc75254811. Exact location of event, longitude -122.15149688721 West, latitude 37.944831848145 North, depth = 15.949999809265 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 14:29:12 / October 26, 2025 @ 2:29 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.949999809265 km (10 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calistoga, Lodi, August (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

August CA Calistoga Fremont Lafayette Lodi Oakland San Francisco San Jose Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.15149688721° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.944831848145° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.949999809265 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km NNW of Lafayette, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-26 14:29:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-26 14:31:16	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	158	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02549	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	nc75254811	Id of event.
Event Code	75254811	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75254811,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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