A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from San Ramon in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.87 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72540130. Unique identifier: nc72540130. Exact location of event, longitude -121.9670029 West, latitude 37.7931671 North, depth = 9.87 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/15 / 2015-10-18 22:31:28 / October 18, 2015 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:31:28 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ben Lomond, Morgan Hill, Salida (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNE of San Ramon, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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