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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near Hollister in California

Posted by admin on January 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.821167S, -121.4091644WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Hollister in California on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.37 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: nc72754980. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72754980. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.4091644 West, latitude 36.821167 North, depth = 5.37 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 11:23:59 / January 22, 2017 @ 11:23 am. The temblor was reported at 03:23:59 / 3:23 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cupertino (c. 58 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cupertino, Santa Clara, Patterson.

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 two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 3 km S of Hollister, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.4091644° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.821167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Hollister, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-22 11:23:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-22 11:29:02 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 146 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 nc72754980 Id of event.
Event Code 72754980 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72754980, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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