Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near New Idria in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from New Idria in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 18:27:50 / October 31, 2025 @ 6:27 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc75257251. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75257251. Exact location of event, longitude -120.73816680908 West, latitude 36.478500366211 North, depth = 20.530000686646 km. The temblor was detected at 18:27:50 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.530000686646 km (13 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hollister (c. 34 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Avenal, Hollister, Kerman (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NW of New Idria, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Avenal CA Greenfield Hollister Kerman Los Banos New Idria Soledad United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.73816680908° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.478500366211° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.530000686646 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NW of New Idria, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-31 18:27:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-31 18:29:26	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	126	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5929	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	214	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	nc75257251	Id of event.
Event Code	75257251	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75257251,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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