Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Gilroy in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Gilroy in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.48 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:09:20 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.4616699° West, latitude 36.9799995° North, depth = 5.48 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/03/16 / 2016-03-07 03:09:20 / March 7, 2016 @ 3:09 am. Unique identifier: nc72603055. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72603055.

Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Delhi, Fremont, Greenfield. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 9 km ESE of Gilroy, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.4616699° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9799995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km ESE of Gilroy, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-07 03:09:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-07 03:14:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	138	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0469	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	49	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	nc72603055	Id of event.
Event Code	72603055	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72603055,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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