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Minor earthquake: M2.53 quake strikes near Hayward in California


Earthquake location 37.6699982S, -122.0766678WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.53 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Hayward in California. The temblor was reported at 06:29:45 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5.29 km (3 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-09 02:29:45 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -122.0766678 West, latitude 37.6699982 North, depth 5.29 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 0 km (0 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Country Club, Lathrop, Napa.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.0766678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6699982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ENE of Hayward, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-09 02:29:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-09 02:34:04 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 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 98 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06839 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 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 nc72393586 Id of event.
Event Code 72393586 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nc72393586 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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