Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Ridgemark in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgemark in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/17 / 2017-06-14 08:06:07 / June 14, 2017 @ 8:06 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.91 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -121.3171692° West, latitude 36.6870003° North, depth = 3.91 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72815676. Unique identifier: nc72815676. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:06:07 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Newman, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz (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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SSE of Ridgemark, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3171692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6870003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2017-06-14 08:06:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-14 08:11:01	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	130	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1125	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72815676	Id of event.
Event Code	72815676	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72815676,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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