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Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag strikes near Greenfield in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Greenfield in California. Id of earthquake: nc72722235. Event ids that are associated: nc72722235. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.72 km (4 miles). The 3.59-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:55:46 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.0058365° West, 36.4648323° North, depth 6.72 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 00:55:46 / November 9, 2016 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hollister (c. 34 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Seaside (c. 33 000 pop). Nearby 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 Interlaken, Watsonville, Pacific Grove.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.59 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.0058365° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4648323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NE of Greenfield, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-09 00:55:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-09 00:59:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	198	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	0.04147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	nc72722235	Id of event.
Event Code	72722235	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72722235,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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