A minor earthquake magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from San Ramon in California. Exact location, longitude -121.9818344° West, latitude 37.7916679° North, depth = 7.68 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.68 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72540765. Unique identifier: nc72540765. The temblor was reported at 16:21:17 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 23:21:17 / October 19, 2015 @ 11:21 pm UTC/GMT.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patterson, Scotts Valley, Winters (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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