A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Soledad in California on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -121.1413345 West, latitude 36.5866661 North, depth = 8.77 km. Global time and date of event 23/01/17 / 2017-01-23 03:15:19 / January 23, 2017 @ 3:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:15:19 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72755195. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72755195. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.77 km (5 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hollister (c. 34 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soquel, Opal Cliffs, Capitola (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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