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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag was detected near San Juan Bautista in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Juan Bautista in California on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72744180. Unique identifier: nc72744180. Exact location, longitude -121.4771652° West, latitude 36.7618332° North, depth = 6.74 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:01:21 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 15:01:21 / December 27, 2016 @ 3:01 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.74 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cupertino (c. 58 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cupertino, Santa Clara, East Foothills (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SSE of San Juan Bautista, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.4771652° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7618332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSE 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	2016-12-27 15:01:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-27 15:04:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	153	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	0.01428	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	nc72744180	Id of event.
Event Code	72744180	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72744180,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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