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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near San Juan Bautista in CA


Earthquake location 36.845165252685S, -121.5924987793WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/25 / 2025-11-29 07:47:52 / November 29, 2025 @ 7:47 am. Event id: nc75271471. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75271471. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:47:52 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.5924987793° West, latitude 36.845165252685° North, depth = 6.5599999427795 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.5599999427795 km (4 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View.

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

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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. 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: 5 km W of San Juan Bautista, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5924987793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.845165252685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.5599999427795 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km W of San Juan Bautista, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-29 07:47:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-29 07:57:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 128 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 nc75271471 Id of event.
Event Code 75271471 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75271471, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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