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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag strikes near Ridgemark in California

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ridgemark in California. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:52 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 10:41:52 / March 31, 2016 @ 10:41 am. Exact location of event, longitude -121.0011673 West, latitude 36.7854996 North, depth = -0.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.58 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nc72615255. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72615255.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Merced (c. 79 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Turlock (c. 68 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kerman, Pacific Grove, Aptos.

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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km E of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.55 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.0011673° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7854996° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km E 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	2016-03-31 10:41:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-31 10:46:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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		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	194	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	109	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1412	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	nc72615255	Id of event.
Event Code	72615255	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72615255,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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