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Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag strikes near Ridgemark in California


Earthquake location 36.7016678S, -121.3438339WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ridgemark in California. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72804356. Unique identifier: nc72804356. Exact location of earthquake, -121.3438339° West, 36.7016678° North, depth 4.15 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/05/17 / 2017-05-22 01:36:16 / May 22, 2017 @ 1:36 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.15 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:36:16 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Firebaugh, Los Gatos, Ben Lomond (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 12 km S of Ridgemark, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3438339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7016678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S 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 2017-05-22 01:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-22 01:41:16 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 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.1 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 188 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 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 nc72804356 Id of event.
Event Code 72804356 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72804356, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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