Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Gilroy in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Gilroy in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.8000001907349 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -121.52016448975 West, latitude 36.978000640869 North, depth = 4.8000001907349 km. The temblor was detected at 14:20:01 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/11/25 / 2025-11-26 14:20:01 / November 26, 2025 @ 2:20 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75269606. Id of event: nc75269606.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dublin, San Carlos, Modesto.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 5 km SE of Gilroy, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Dublin Fremont Gilroy Modesto Salinas San Carlos San Jose Santa Clara Sunnyvale United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.52016448975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.978000640869° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.8000001907349 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SE of Gilroy, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-26 14:20:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-26 14:22:55	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	234	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	88	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0545	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	nc75269606	Id of event.
Event Code	75269606	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75269606,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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