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Minor earthquake 3.86 mag, 5 km SSE of San Juan Bautista, California


Earthquake location 36.7965012S, -121.5121689WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Juan Bautista in California. The temblor was reported at 06:16:07 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 6.43 km (4 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-06 02:16:07 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Juan Bautista in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -121.5121689 West, latitude 36.7965012 North, depth 6.43 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5121689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7965012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of San Juan Bautista, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-12-06 02:16:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-12-06 02:22:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.95 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 1 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 229 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 atnc A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 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 mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72360741 Id of event.
Event Code 72360741 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS at00ng52atnc72360741 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

2 Comments

  1. Laurie perry

    Felt it in salinas. Like a jolt, like something ran into the house. Shook Christmas tree and hanging things.

  2. Cindy

    this one was way to close to my house for comfort!!

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