Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Ridgemark in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ridgemark in California on Wednesday. Unique identifier: nc72779376. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72779376. Global time and date of event 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 15:25:11 / March 22, 2017 @ 3:25 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.21 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:25:11 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.2566681° West, latitude 36.6409988° North, depth = 4.21 km.

The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz, Newman, Firebaugh (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SSE of Ridgemark, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2566681° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6409988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SSE of Ridgemark, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-22 15:25:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-22 15:30:03	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	142	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05551	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	nc72779376	Id of event.
Event Code	72779376	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72779376,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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