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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Los Altos Hills in CA


Earthquake location 37.3569984S, -122.1374969WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Los Altos Hills in CA. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:26:30 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/20 / 2020-12-30 04:26:30 / December 30, 2020 @ 4:26 am. Event id: nc73504360. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73504360. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.1374969 West, latitude 37.3569984 North, depth = 5.6 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Benicia, Prunedale, San Rafael (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km S of Los Altos Hills, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.1374969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3569984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Los Altos Hills, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-30 04:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-30 04:29:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 123 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 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 nc73504360 Id of event.
Event Code 73504360 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73504360, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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