Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Hollister in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Hollister in California on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 00:52:51 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/03/17 / 2017-03-21 08:52:51 / March 21, 2017 @ 8:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5.65 km, -121.338501° West, 36.8781662° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72778946. Unique identifier: nc72778946. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.65 km (4 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Milpitas (c. 66 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Milpitas, Delhi, Cupertino. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.338501° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8781662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km ENE 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	2017-03-21 08:52:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-21 09:06:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	41	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	169	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04222	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	80	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	nc72778946	Id of event.
Event Code	72778946	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72778946,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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