Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near Soledad in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Soledad in California on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/16 / 2016-08-28 02:24:37 / August 28, 2016 @ 2:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:24:37 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.38 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.1661682 West, latitude 36.5763321 North, depth = 3.38 km. Id of earthquake: nc72686391. Event ids that are associated: nc72686391.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rio Del Mar, Gustine, Morgan Hill. Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 22 km NE of Soledad, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.1661682° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5763321° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NE of Soledad, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-28 02:24:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-28 02:26:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	136	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01931	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	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	nc72686391	Id of event.
Event Code	72686391	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72686391,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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