Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Soledad in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Soledad in California. Id of earthquake: nc72780751. Event ids that are associated: nc72780751. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/03/17 / 2017-03-26 08:07:22 / March 26, 2017 @ 8:07 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:07:22 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.94 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.1493301 West, latitude 36.5563316 North, depth = 6.94 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gustine, Morgan Hill, Mendota (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km NE of Soledad, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.1493301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5563316° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km NE of Soledad, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-26 08:07:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-26 08:13:02	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	156	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06812	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	39	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	nc72780751	Id of event.
Event Code	72780751	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72780751,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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