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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Ridgemark in California

Posted by admin on August 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7113342S, -121.1893311WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ridgemark in California on Tuesday. Unique identifier: nc72507921. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72507921. Global time and date of event 18/08/15 / 2015-08-18 07:57:59 / August 18, 2015 @ 7:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:57:59 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.1893311 West, latitude 36.7113342 North, depth = 6.77 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.77 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz, Live Oak, Soquel. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 19 km SE of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1893311° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7113342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE of Ridgemark, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-18 07:57:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-18 08:03:06 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 158 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06409 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 nc72507921 Id of event.
Event Code 72507921 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72507921, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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