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Minor earthquake, 3.54 mag was detected near Ridgemark in California


Earthquake location 36.7771683S, -121.2923355WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ridgemark in California. The temblor was picked up at 23:36:07 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72554936. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72554936. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.83 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -121.2923355° West, latitude 36.7771683° North, depth = 8.83 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 07:36:07 / November 13, 2015 @ 7:36 am.

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Campbell (c. 39 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Livingston, Saratoga, San Jose (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km ESE of Ridgemark, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.2923355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7771683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE 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 2015-11-13 07:36:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-13 07:41:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 3.44 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 193 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 nc72554936 Id of event.
Event Code 72554936 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72554936, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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