Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Ridgemark in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgemark in California. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:00:39 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -121.3436661 West, latitude 36.7088318 North, depth = 2.86 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.86 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 14:00:39 / September 28, 2015 @ 2:00 pm. Event id: nc72531841. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72531841.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ben Lomond, Newman, Scotts Valley. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km S of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3436661° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7088318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km S 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	2015-09-28 14:00:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-28 14:11:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	131	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	nc72531841	Id of event.
Event Code	72531841	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72531841,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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