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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag strikes near Ridgemark in California

Posted by admin on July 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6838333S, -121.3608333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgemark in California. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.3608333 West, latitude 36.6838333 North, depth = 4.01 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.01 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:15:10 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 06:15:10 / July 18, 2016 @ 6:15 am. Id of earthquake: nc72662856. Event ids that are associated: nc72662856.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ben Lomond, Newman, Gustine (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Close 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km S of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3608333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6838333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S 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 2016-07-18 06:15:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-19 01:04:02 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 reviewed 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 nc72662856 Id of event.
Event Code 72662856 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72662856, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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