Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Interlaken in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Interlaken in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.46 km (7 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:36 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 22:21:36 / July 17, 2017 @ 10:21 pm. Exact location of event, depth 11.46 km, -121.68367° West, 36.9356651° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72840781. Unique identifier: nc72840781.

The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Redwood City, Patterson, Los Banos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ESE of Interlaken, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.68367° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9356651° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km ESE of Interlaken, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-17 22:21:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-17 22:29:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	24	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	145	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0181	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	nc72840781	Id of event.
Event Code	72840781	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72840781,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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