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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near San Juan Bautista in California


Earthquake location 36.8421669S, -121.5800018WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in California on Tuesday. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:09:20 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 02:09:20 / July 15, 2015 @ 2:09 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.47 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -121.5800018 West, latitude 36.8421669 North, depth = 6.47 km. Unique identifier: nc72485991. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72485991.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Altos, Mountain View, Newman (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km W of San Juan Bautista, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5800018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8421669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W 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 2015-07-15 02:09:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-15 02:12:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02391 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 40 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 nc72485991 Id of event.
Event Code 72485991 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72485991, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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