Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Ridgemark in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ridgemark in California. Exact location, longitude -121.2854996° West, latitude 36.668499° North, depth = 3.27 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 21:01:15 / July 22, 2016 @ 9:01 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.27 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72664991. Unique identifier: nc72664991. The temblor was detected at 14:01:15 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Scotts Valley, Firebaugh, Newman (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 17 km SSE of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2854996° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.668499° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SSE 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	2016-07-22 21:01:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-22 21:06:02	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	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	148	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	nc72664991	Id of event.
Event Code	72664991	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72664991,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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