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Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake strikes near Concord in California


Earthquake location 37.9681664S, -122.0339966WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (mg/mb) was reported Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Concord in California. The temblor was reported at 07:01:47 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 13.88 km (9 miles). Global time of event 06/05/15 / 2015-05-06 14:01:47 / May 6, 2015 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -122.0339966 West, latitude 37.9681664 North, depth 13.88 km, unique identifier, nc72444161.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Florin, Santa Rosa, Roseland.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.0339966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9681664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW of Concord, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-06 14:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-06 14:29:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 254 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 reviewed 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 258 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06035 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 83 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 nc72444161 Id of event.
Event Code 72444161 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72444161, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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