Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Soledad in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Soledad in California on Monday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:44:37 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 18:44:37 / November 20, 2017 @ 6:44 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.47 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: nc72928110. Event ids that are associated: nc72928110. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.222168 West, latitude 36.6170006 North, depth = 4.47 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Live Oak, Soquel, Mendota (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km NNE of Soledad, 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	-121.222168° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6170006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NNE 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	2017-11-20 18:44:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-20 18:50:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	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	139	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04932	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	nc72928110	Id of event.
Event Code	72928110	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72928110,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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