Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near San Juan Bautista in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in California. Exact location, longitude -121.5893326° West, latitude 36.8501663° North, depth = 5.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.31 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: nc72577871. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72577871. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/16 / 2016-01-09 17:46:51 / January 9, 2016 @ 5:46 pm. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:46:51 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km W of San Juan Bautista, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.5893326° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8501663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km W of San Juan Bautista, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-09 17:46:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-09 17:59:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	134	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03002	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	nc72577871	Id of event.
Event Code	72577871	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72577871,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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