Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag has occurred near San Juan Bautista in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in California. Exact location of event, longitude -121.5895004 West, latitude 36.8573341 North, depth = 7.03 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.03 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: nc72717310. Event ids that are associated: nc72717310. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:14:55 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 18:14:55 / October 28, 2016 @ 6:14 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.84 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.5895004° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8573341° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WNW of San Juan Bautista, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-28 18:14:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-28 18:30:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	125	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02714	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	nc72717310	Id of event.
Event Code	72717310	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72717310,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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