A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gilroy in California. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.4757 West, latitude 37.0196 North, depth = 9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1764166600. Id of event: ew1764166600. The temblor was reported at 14:16:42 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/11/25 / 2025-11-26 14:16:42 / November 26, 2025 @ 2:16 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Merced, San Lorenzo, Riverbank. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km E of Gilroy, California.
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