Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near Soledad in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Soledad in California. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:45:46 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.74 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/10/17 / 2017-10-09 06:45:46 / October 9, 2017 @ 6:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -121.074501° West, latitude 36.4964981° North, depth = 3.74 km. Id of earthquake: nc72906441. Event ids that are associated: nc72906441.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hollister (c. 34 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Interlaken, Pacific Grove, Watsonville.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 23 km ENE of Soledad, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.074501° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4964981° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km ENE 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	2017-10-09 06:45:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-09 06:55:09	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	2.1	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	133	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08444	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	130	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	nc72906441	Id of event.
Event Code	72906441	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72906441,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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